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Elk Regional Health System
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MEDICARE-CERTIFIED & LICENSED
BY THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
 Hospice is a comprehensive and
compassionate
program of care for patients and families dealing with a terminal
illness. Hospice focuses on controlling
pain, managing symptoms, and helping you and your family share your
time together in a familiar, comfortable environment. Hospice
services are available to persons who can no longer benefit from
curative treatment. We recommend that persons be enrolled in hospice
when the physician feels that life expectancy is six months or less.
If you would like to speak to someone about Hospice, you can place a
call, in confidence, to our hospice nurse manager at 1-800-841-9397.
You Have Just Been Diagnosed With A
Terminal Illness |
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Suddenly, you are faced with many decisions. You may ask yourself...
- Will I have to be hospitalized?
- Will I be in pain?
- How can I pay for all the care I will need?
- Will I be separated from my family just
when I need them most?
- How can I help my family deal with this?
Hospice has the answers to all of these questions and more. Community Nurses Hospice is a program of care for terminally ill patients who wish to spend their last months, weeks and days in their own homes, supported and cared for by family members and a team of Hospice nurses, physician, therapists, aides, social workers, spiritual counselors and volunteers. Hospice is special because it concentrates on care, not cure. Hospice focuses on comfort and pain management for the patient, and support for the entire family.
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Hospice Could
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Choosing Hospice is a difficult but rewarding decision for most families. With a family member or friend designated as primary caregiver, the role of the Hospice team is to provide a complete program of care in the home to meet the needs of the terminally ill patient and his/her family. Their goal is to help the patient remain as alert and as pain free as possible, at home or in a home-like environment. The Hospice team arranges for specific medical and supportive care to keep the patient comfortable, at home, until the time of death. Family or friends providing care in the home can call for assistance from the hospice team at any time –
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Hope... |
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With Hospice, when all curative measures have been exhausted, there is still hope - not the false hope of a cure, but the hope that your last days may be spent in an atmosphere of physical comfort and human warmth. Although choosing Hospice takes a strong commitment on the part of a family, it may be the most rewarding decision you ever make. |
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Who Pays for
Hospice Care |
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- Most private insurances
- Some HMO’s
- Medicare
- Medical Assistance
- Grants and Community Support
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What Services Does Medicare Cover? |
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- Physician services
- Nursing care
- Homemaker services & home health aides
- Physical and other therapists
- Medical appliances and supplies
- Spiritual, dietary and other counseling
- Drugs for symptom management & pain relief
- Short-term inpatient and respite care, as
needed
- Bereavement Services
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You Can Become A Hospice Volunteer... |
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Community Nurses Hospice Volunteers play an important role in our Hospice program. Volunteers help by visiting the patient and family, providing respite support for family members, running errands for the family, providing simple patient care, and working in the office on newsletters and special projects. Would you like to find out more about being a Hospice volunteer? Call our office at
1-800-841-9397. |
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We Get Letters From Our Hospice
Families... |
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“We want to express our thanks to you and your entire staff for all of the help you gave us with our mother. Because of you, we were able to fulfill her wishes and keep her at home... Many thanks for everything!”
“No words could EVER express ALL the care and help you have given to mom and to us during her illness. Your nurses and home health aides have all earned a special place with God’s angels!! It’s not only the work, but the compassion and concern you have shown us. May God bless and keep each and every one of you!”
“I could never have gone through my father’s illness without your wonderful nurses and aides. They were lifesavers for both Dad & me. I can’t say enough about them, especially Jean and Fay. Your Hospice program is the best thing that ever happened to terminal patients. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
“My entire family wishes to thank you for your kindness, dedication and support in making my wife’s final days happy and comfortable. Words cannot describe the feeling of seeing her happy and at home where she wanted to be and knowing that all of you were there for her day and night. I especially want to thank your staff for being there and consoling me during my grief, her home health aide for such tender care and especially her primary nurse who was there day and night when we needed her and especially at the end. We wish you would accept this small gift and use it in hope of easing someone else’s burden during their final days. God bless you all. I will never forget you.”
“To our wonderful friends at Hospice and Community Nurses of Elk and Cameron Counties,
I hardly have words to express our deep gratitude to your organization and all of the people who worked with our Mother. I saw two separate groups. 1st: Those who helped Mom in the earlier stages of her illness, giving her -
and us - support, information and encouragement. That time has become wonderful memory for us through your good management and professional workers -
always a friendly and welcomed face! And 2nd: the angels who helped us all in the most difficult but rewarding experience of our lives. We will be eternally grateful for the help we received, which enabled us to keep Mom at home as she wished, and brought us all closer together because we were able to do it together. We’ll never forget the loving care which Mom and we were given all through this period. I personally wish to thank and praise Jerry, Ethel and Janet for all that they did.” |
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