Gentiva Hospice

Description

Hospice is a concept of care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to curative treatments. It's goal is to provide quality time through the last days of a patients life, while offering comfort and dignity.

A few key points related to hospice:

• Hospice care neither prolongs life nor hastens death
• Hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
• Hospice provides an interdisciplinary team approach
• Hospice focuses on quality of life
• Hospice promotes honest communication
• Hospice deals with the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of care
• Hospice is very family oriented.. It is in fact, the only health care provider that can be cited for not taking care of the family as well as the patient.
• Hospice offers a variety of bereavement and counseling services both prior to, and after the patients death.
• Hospice provides all aspects of palliative care