Hospice Care Team
Your Hospice Care Team
Hospice Nurses
Our skilled nurses will manage your loved one’s care while on hospice services. The nurse will assess the physical needs during the home or nursing facility visits at least two times per week. In consultation with your primary physician and other hospice team members, the nurse might make necessary medications or treatment changes. Hospice nurses specialize in caring for patients with a life-limiting illness and have specialized training in pain control and symptom management.
Your primary nurse will:
Answer questions about the disease process and about what to expect as the illness progresses.
Instruct you and the patient on how to take medication.
Suggest physical comfort measures and other helpful skills.
Help arrange for medications, equipment and other needed services.
Work with the patient’s physician to plan for care.
Home Health Aides
Our hospice home health aides, also commonly referred to as an HHA, are trained to provide personal care to patients in their home environment. Home health aides follow a plan of care developed by a registered nurse (RN) who supervises the home health aide's care. Our home health aides provide various care from companionship to essential health services such as bathing, dressing and other personal care needs.
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 more healthful and gentle 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.
Comforting Hands Hospice is committed to providing quality end-of-life care to all whose lives are affected.
Volunteer Services
Volunteers fill the gap between loved ones and professional caregivers. Volunteers will be there when friends and family find it hard to do so. Volunteers don’t have the same attachment as family. They are trained to meet patients' and families' needs.
Contact Elk City Comforting Hands Hospice
If you or your loved one is seeking hospice care, Elk City Comforting Hands Hospice is the very best choice.
Call our office today:
580-225-1738
Elk City Hospice and Palliative Care
Hospice is comfort care brought to every patient, whether in a private home, a skilled nursing facility/ nursing home, or an assisted living community. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services has defined four kinds, or “levels,” of hospice care. Each level of care meets specific needs, and every hospice patient is unique.
Comforting Hands Hospice has worked hard to form lasting relationships within our communities while caring for patients residing in private homes, skilled nursing facilities/nursing homes and assisted living centers. Our quality forced services exceed the State and Federal programs by turning standard care into exceptional care for all involved.