The staff of Faith Hospice provides specialized medical
care to people who have advanced or life-limiting illnesses that no longer
respond to aggressive, cure-oriented treatments. Our goal is to improve the quality of a
patient’s life by controlling pain and providing symptom relief. Comfort care (also called “palliative
care”) is care which protects against the more distressing aspects of the
dying process. When there is no hope of
cure or recovery, comfort care offers a gentler approach – one that
enhances the quality of life. This approach includes skillful management of
pain and other physical symptoms. It
focuses on those experiences – physical, social, and spiritual –
which are comforting to the patient. It
includes emotional and spiritual support to the family as well. Faith
Hospice staff is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Hospice care is
provided by nurses, a social worker, a pastoral counselor, nursing assistants,
an other health professionals – under the guidance of a physician who may
be the patient’s own primary care physician or a medical director for Faith Hospice.
Faith Hospice has the capacity to assist patients and their
families wherever the patient resides. A
small percentage of hospices have inpatient facilities, but 80% of hospice care
is provided in the patient’s home, a family member’s home or in a
nursing home. Faith Hospice complements the care that is routinely provided in a
long-term care facility by working closely with the nursing home to provide
care, support and information to the patient and family.
Faith Hospice staff is specially trained to provide medical
assistance and to deal with the loneliness and fears experienced by our
patients and their loved ones. Faith Hospice supports the choices and
decisions the patient and family make regarding the patient’s health care
and helps the patient and family navigate through uncharted territory.
We extend a lifeline
to help the patient and family through the end stages of illness, whatever the
outcome. We are there to help the patient
and loved ones find their own way – a way that makes sense to them and
reflects their own choices and values.
While many of our
patients are diagnosed with cancer, our hospice services are also available to
patients with pulmonary disease, heart disease, neurological disorders,
Alzheimer’s disease, AIDS, etc.
Each patient’s
specialized Plan of Care is developed by Faith
Hospice’s interdisciplinary team and is approved by the
patient’s attending physician and a Faith
Hospice medical director.
Hospice provides care regardless of ability to pay.
Faith Hospice Services
1-800-797-3839
Blackwell –
580-363-3793