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Our Mission
Dignity, Comfort and Peace at the End of Life
High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc.
provides end of life care that listens with
respect,
cares with compassion,
supports with choice
and comforts
with understanding
wherever you call home.
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What is “Hospice Care”?
Hospice
enhances the quality of life and alleviates the burden of the terminally
ill and their loved ones by giving them:
Control
Patients are
encouraged to articulate their desires and needs and to participate in
choices about their own care.
Comfort
Emphasis is
on pain management and symptom control.
Familiarity
Care is given in
the location where the patient feels most comfortable-usually in the
home.
Dignity
Our Hospice staff
provides the support and expertise to allow a patient to live their
lives to the
fullest until the very end.
Support
Well trained professionals provide not only medical expertise, but along
with our volunteers also provide spiritual, and compassionate support to
patients and their loved ones.
High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care
is a rural,
not-for-profit health care corporation, certified and licensed by New
York State. Our hospice is composed of a caring team of professionals
and volunteers who provide the full range of quality hospice services,
primarily in the home, to all terminally ill individuals and their
families in portions of Franklin and Hamilton Counties and all of Warren
and Essex Counties.
Our health care team
provides physical care, emotional support and education to the entire
family regardless of age, gender, nationality, race, creed, sexual
orientation, disability, diagnosis or ability to pay.
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Our History
High Peaks Hospice and
Palliative Care was conceived in January 1986 by a dedicated group of
concerned medical, clergy, and community volunteers, who saw the need
for expanded services to the terminally ill throughout the Adirondack
Mountains. For two and a half years volunteers alone provided supportive
services to area residents from office space donated by the Trudeau
Institute.
Early in 1988 our offices
moved behind Adirondack Medical Center. August 29th of that
same year our ability to provide comprehensive medical treatment along
with supportive care was realized following certification by State and
Federal agencies. That same year High Peaks Hospice received the
prestigious Eleanor Roosevelt Community Service Award by Governor Cuomo
for outstanding volunteer service (over 6900 volunteer hours).
Individuals, when faced
with imminent death, now had choices as to how and where they would
die. Patients were finally given control. In the ensuing years High
Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care has continued to expand and flourish.
The vision of a few in 1986 - to provide dignity, comfort and hope to
the terminally ill and their families - has grown into a highly
respected and valuable health service organization that provides
physical, emotional and bereavement support throughout the Adirondack
and Southern Adirondack region.
A vision and over twenty
years later, High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care has three offices
that cover a vast service area . The organization employs close to 50
employees and the volunteers – who started it all and continue to be the
heart and soul of the organization– number well over 250! |
