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Services in a Nursing Home

Hospice team members are experts in end-of-life care, and nursing facility staff are experts in long-term care. A partnership between our agency and nursing facilities promotes optimal end-of-life care for patients and families. The Hospice team collaborates with the nursing facility staff to adjust the care plan to promote the patient/family end of life choices. The following are examples of the services we provide in the nursing home.

• Skilled and supportive nursing care - hands on care consultation for pain and symptom management and wound care
• Medical social workers for counseling patients and families and staff
• Chaplain for spiritual support
• Volunteers for friendship and visitation
• Physical therapy, occupational, and speech therapy for palliative needs as ordered by Hospice
• Dietary counseling
• Medical equipment and supplies not covered in the standard room and board, related to the terminal diagnosis
• Medications related to the terminal diagnosis
• Continuous nursing care with an exacerbation of the patient's condition requiring skilled monitoring
• Bereavement support for the family for 15 months following the patient's death
• Inservice training for the nursing home staff