What is Hospice?

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1628dfc3.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0428dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Mountain Hospice</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mountain Hospice"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awareness 1000"><U>"Awareness 1000"</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0428dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>What is Hospice?</I></div> <bR> <div> Hospice provides comfort and compassion when it's needed most.  Hospice enables a person to retain his or her dignity and maintain quality of life during the end of life.  Hospice encompasses the support given to the patient and the family during the illness and through their bereavement.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Mountain Hospices provides comfort and compassion for terminally ill by:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Addressing the patient's physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.</div> <div> Helping family members during and after the dying process.</div> <div> Providing comprehensive palliative care when there is no cure, with an emphasis on pain and symptom control.</div> <div> Enabling a person to live the last weeks and months of life as fully and as comfortably as possible with dignity, at home, or in a home-like setting.</div> <div> Accepting death as a natural part of life, seeking neither to hasten nor prolong the dying process.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Mountain Hospice Team</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Hospice is provided on an as needed basis for home visits 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by an Interdisciplinary Team consisting of:</div> <div> Physician</div> <div> Nurses</div> <div> Home Health Aides</div> <div> Social Workers</div> <div> Chaplains</div> <div> Bereavement Counselors</div> <div> Volunteers</div> <div> Other health care professionals</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>S</B></I><I><B>ervice</B></I><I><B>s provided by hospice:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Among its major responsibilities, the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team:</div> <div> Manages the patient's pain and symptoms.</div> <div> Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial aspect of dying.</div> <div> Provides needed drugs, medical supplies, and equipment.</div> <div> Coaches and educates the family on how to care for the patient.</div> <div> Offers spiritual care.</div> <div> Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed. </div> <div> Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>