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Our Mission and Vision
"To ensure that all people have the opportunity to receive end of life care which preserves dignity and provides comfort."
"What is Affinity-Hospice of Life?" - Hospice of Life offers 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
or caregivers will attain a degree of
mental preparation for a death.
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