We promote and embrace a palliative care approach to individuals diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, as well as supportive services to their loved ones. Hospice and palliative care is a continuum of care with an emphasis on maintaining the patient at home in their most familiar, comfortable, and least restrictive environment.
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Patients live longer with Hospice
In March 2007 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization conducted a study looking at 4,493 Medicare beneficiaries with some of the most common diagnoses leading to death. Patients who received hospice services lived on average, 29 dayslonger than those who did not receive hospice care, and lived a better quality of life.
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When to Consider Hospice
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For most people, having end of life discussions with family members is very difficult and in most cases avoided. Although difficult, it is best for families to share their wishes long before this becomes an immediate concern. In many circumstances patients with a terminal illness may loose their ability to communicate with loved ones, leaving family members to assume, and forced to make uncomfortable decisions during an already stressful time.
Hospice care is for people who have a life expectancy of six months or less, and have chosen to focus on pain and symptom relief over healing treatment. Diagnoses commonly associated with Hospice care include these and other terminal diseases:
Heart Disease Cancer
Alzheimer’s/Dementia AIDS/HIV
Respiratory Diseases Neurologic Diseases
Liver/Renal Failure Stroke or Coma
Patients live longer with Hospice
In March 2007 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization conducted a study looking at 4,493 Medicare beneficiaries with some of the most common diagnoses leading to death. Patients who received hospice services lived on average, 29 dayslonger than those who did not receive hospice care, and lived a better quality of life.
