What is Hospice?
Hospice is care that focuses on the quality of life for people and their caregivers who are experiencing a life-limiting illness. Hospice helps patients live as fully and comfortably as possible. The hospice philosophy accepts death as the final stage of life: it affirms life, but does not try to hasten or postpone death.
The hospice benefit allows the patient and family to stay together in the comfort of home, unless care is needed in an inpatient facility. If inpatient hospice care is needed,
Azorna Hospice can make the arrangements for your stay.
What does Azorna Hospice care include?
All hospice providers must offer certain services. But they tend to have different approaches to service, staffing patterns, and types of support services offered.
- Expert Symptom Management
- Discomfort, pain, nausea, and other side effects are managed to make sure that the patient feels as good as possible, yet alert enough to make important decisions.
- Home Visits, Medications, Equipment and Supplies
- For patients receiving hospice care, a hospice nurse will make regular visits and is always available by phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Other members of the hospice team may also visit depending on the patient’s needs.
Medications, equipment, and supplies related to the terminal illness are provided with no out-of-pocket cost.
