SERVICES PROVIDED BY QUALITY HOSPICE CARE, INC.:

Among its major responsibilities, the interdisciplinary hospice team:

• Manages the patient’s pain and symptoms.

• Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial aspects of dying.

• Provides needed drugs, medical supplies, and equipment related to the terminal diagnosis.

• Coaches the family on how to care for the patient.

• Offers spiritual care.

• Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed.

• Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time.

• Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.

QUALITY HOSPICE CARE, INC. CARES COMPASSIONATELY FOR TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE BY:

• Addressing the patient’s physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.

• Helping family members during and after the dying process.

• Providing comprehensive palliative care when there is no cure, with an emphasis on pain and symptom control.

• Enabling a person to live the last weeks and months of life as fully and comfortably as possible, with dignity, at home or in a home-like setting.

• Accepting death as a natural part of life, seeking neither to hasten nor prolong the dying process.