Understanding Hospice

Is Hospice the Answer?

Whether someone is facing a chronic debilitating illness, or has received difficult news accompanying a new illness, how one will receive care is foremost in their mind. Hospice may be the right choice if you or your loved one has an illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months and have chosen to receive "palliative" as opposed to "curative" care. What this simply means is shifting the focusing from curing a disease to maximize the comfort, dignity and care of the individual.

Have you or a loved one...

  1. Been hospitalized or gone to the emergency room several times in the past six months?
  2. Been making more frequent phone calls to your physicians?
  3. Started taking medication to lessen physical pain?
  4. Started spending most of the day in a chair or bed?
  5. Fallen several times over the past six months?
  6. Started needing help from others with two or more of the following: bathing, getting out of bed, eating, dressing, walking?
  7. Started feeling weaker or more tired?
  8. Experienced weight loss so that clothes are noticeably looser?
  9. Experienced shortness of breath, even while resting?
  10. Been told by a doctor that life expectancy is limited?
 If you think hospice may right for you or your loved one, please take the opportunity to contact the appropriate program office and we can set up an appointment to explain services. Our hospice team will contact your physician for you.

Bereavement Services

Hospice's team approach treats not only the patient but recognizes the entire family is affected by a terminal illness. After a patient has died, the team will keep in contact with the family on a regular basis for at least one year after the death of the loved one.

Cardiac Connections

A care model developed to meet the unique needs of patients with advanced cardiac disease and congestive heart failure.

Community Outreach

Compassionate Care Hospice takes our commitment to serve the entire community seriously.

Compassionate Care 4 Kids

First Night at Home

Compassionate Care's First Night at Home is designed to ensure new hospice patients receive a little extra support the first few days on service.

Holistic Therapies

Inpatient Hospice Care

All of Compassionate Care's programs offer inpatient hospice in various settings: nursing home and hospitals being the most common. Some of our programs have dedicated hospice units as well.

Jewish Hospice Program

The Jewish Hospice Program of Compassionate Care Hospice affirms life during its final stages by providing holistic compassionate care to Jewish patients and their families.

Promise Program

Compassionate Care's promise is to meet the requirements of needy populations.

Veterans Outreach

Our veterans program meets the unique end-of-life needs of this patient population.

Vietnamese Program