Hospice Services
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.
