What is Hospice Care?

Hospice care is a form of palliative care that focuses on pain and symptom relief, comfort and quality of life. Services are provided by a specialized medical team and generally available to those with a life expectancy of six months or less. We believe that we are all entitled to care that relieves pain and symptoms without prolonging life, nor hastening the end of life. We believe that each person, each family, is unique and that hospice care can help give meaning and quality to a patient’s final days and to family members or friends who are providing care.

The medical team is an interdisciplinary team of specialists including nurses, social workers, spiritual counselors, home health aides, volunteers and our own Medical Director who works with both the patient’s primary care physicians, and the patient and family itself.