Your Hospice Care Team
Hospice Nurses
Our skilled hospice nurses visit at least twice a week to assess and manage physical needs. In collaboration with your primary physician and the hospice team, they oversee medications, adjust treatment plans, and provide specialized care focused on pain control and symptom management.
Your nurse will:
Answer questions about the illness and its progression
Teach medication routines and comfort techniques
Coordinate necessary equipment and services
Collaborate with the physician to guide your care
Home Health Aides
Our trained aides provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and daily support based on a care plan developed by a registered nurse. They offer both essential assistance and compassionate companionship in the patient’s home.
Medical Social Workers
Medical social workers are very beneficial when the patient is receiving care at home. Our social workers can offer guidance, resources and support, including: psychosocial education to patients, families and caregivers about coping skills, hospice and palliative care philosophy and nonpharmacological symptom management strategies. They can provide mediation for conflicts within families, between clients and the interdisciplinary team, and between service organizations. Medical social workers participate in interdisciplinary team meetings, care planning and ethics consultations. Our social workers are great at advocating on behalf of the patient and family.
Chaplain Services
Spiritual care is an integral part of end-of-life care, whether the patient and family have a strong traditional religious background or not. When faced with end-of-life, it is not uncommon for patients to wonder what comes next, to question what their life experiences have meant and to worry about unresolved issues. Our Chaplain can help by following the patient's and family’s religious practices and prayers or simply addressing their philosophical feelings and fears about death and dying.
Bereavement Care
Comforting Hands Hospice knows that a loved one's death can cause intense distress to those who shared close relationships with the deceased. We believe appropriate support for families and caregivers as they anticipate their loss and continued support after the patient’s death results in a healthier and gentler journey through grief.
To ensure that appropriate services and resources are available to the family, our Bereavement Care Coordinator assesses coping skills and support systems within the family unit before and at the time of death.
Bereavement Care is provided for 13 months following the death in various ways:
Families may receive visits, telephone calls and letters from our professional staff regularly.
Information and referral sources are made available upon need or request.
Grief Support Groups are available throughout the year.
Family and hospice staff gather to remember patients who have died at our annual memorial service.
Persons evaluated as “high-risk” for complicated grieving are referred to appropriate professionals early in the process.
Volunteer Services
Trained volunteers provide an extra layer of support by filling in when needed, offering presence, and easing burdens for both patients and families.
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