Hospice
At Affinity Hospice of Life, it is our goal to ensure that all people have the opportunity to receive end of life care which preserves dignity and provides comfort.
We offer an interdisciplinary team approach of the following staff and services to ensure that patients and their families are treated with dignity, respect and compassion:
- Your Personal Physician
- Hospice Medical Director
- Trained Nurses
- Social Workers
- Certified Nursing Assistants
- Volunteers/Spiritual Counselors
- Bereavement Counselor
- Medications related to the illness
- Medical Supplies related to the illness
- Medical Equipment related to the illness
The purpose of hospice is to provide individualized and ethical care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and practical needs of people in the last phase of life, those dying from a terminal illness.
- Hospice reflects a spirit and philosophy of caring that emphasizes comfort and dignity for the dying.
- Hospice makes it possible for the dying to remain independent for as long as possible.
- Hospice emphasizes control of pain and other symptoms, and dying in familiar surroundings.
- Hospice care is centered on the patient, family and caregiver.
- Hospice personnel respect and respond to the unique differences in family or caregiver lifestyle, values and wishes.
- Hospice provides palliative care in the patient's home, short term inpatient care, mobilization and bereavement support.
- Hospice affirms life.
- Hospice believes that through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring attitude, patients, families and caregivers will attain a degree of mental preparation for a death.
