A team of professionals and/or volunteers will be available at all times for a High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care patient. The team’s goal is to assist in enhancing the quality of life of the patient and their loved ones as well as bringing physical and emotional care. 

The “team” is a dedicated group of nurses (RNs and LPNs), social workers, home health aides, a hospice physician, bereavement counselors, trained volunteers and nutrition counselors and therapists.  The extended team also includes the patient’s own personal physician, family, friends and neighbors.  Whatever the setting, the team works closely with the patients and their families to plan care that is safe, comfortable and the choice of each patient.

Once an individual has been admitted into hospice care the following services are provided to the patient and their families:

Most medication related to Hospice diagnosis

Equipment such as wheel chairs, hospital beds, oxygen and other medical equipment necessary to make the patient comfortable

Registered Nurses available 24 hours a day should emergency needs or questions arise.

Licensed Practical Nurses or Home Health Aides for personal care

Social Worker for in home counseling with patients and loved ones

Bereavement Counseling & Spiritual Care

Therapists – Occupational, Physical or Nutritional

Respite Care

Volunteer for patient socialization and caregiver respite

What are not listed here are the intangibles.  Once admitted the day to day stress of the caregivers is eased – hospice staff and volunteers are there – as often or infrequently as you wish – to help with day to day tasks and to provide comfort and care to not only the patient but to their families and loved ones as well.   Prescriptions are refilled, equipment is found and delivered to wherever the patient is and High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care works with insurance companies to alleviate the family of this burden.   Much of the pressure is lifted enabling the patients to live their lives to the fullest until the very end.