Inpatient care for patients in need of pain and symptom management

Our Hospice Center offers patients and their families a higher level of inpatient care and comfort when pain and other symptoms cannot be managed at home. Only patients in need of pain and symptom management may be admitted to our Hospice Center. Once these conditions are under control, patients normally return home to continue receiving our services.

Our Hospice Center offers patients and their families many benefits, including:

• High-quality, compassionate patient care
• Around-the-clock care in a home-like setting
• One-on-one, team-oriented care from physicians, nurses, social services and bereavement specialists
• Comfortable patient rooms
• Pullout chairs for family to stay and rest with their loved ones
• Flat screen televisions
• CD players for personal music
• Home-like family rooms for visitors
• Comfortable furnishings
• A flat screen television, telephone and computer access
• Coffee maker and mini-kitchen
• Quiet room
• For meetings with health care team members or pastoral care
• A place for personal reflection and privacy

Above and beyond

• Family support while loved ones are in hospice care
• Family follow-up for 13 months after hospice ends
• Music therapy
• Pet visitation
• 24-hour visiting hours