Area Community Hospice is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you have questions or if you have a loved one to refer to hospice, please call toll-free 1.877.317.2732 at any time.
Our Mission
Area Community Hospice is committed to providing comfort, dignity, and hope through professional teams, which are sensitive, understanding and filled with compassion to provide physical, social, emotional, and spiritual care by enhancing the quality of life in those with life limiting illnesses, one patient at a time.
What is Hospice?
Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care at the end-of-life, hospice care involves a team oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support, tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes. Support is extended to the patient’s loved ones as well. Area Community Hospice recognizes death as part of life’s journey.
Our commitment is to provide compassionate care, so our patient’s can end their journey in peace and comfort with dignity while providing support for them and their loved ones.
The focus is caring not curing. The term “Hospice” originates from medieval times when it referred to inns for travelers and later a refuge for the ill. Today, most hospice care takes place in a patient’s home, hospital setting, long term care facility or assisted living facility where he or she is surrounded by family and familiar things.
How does Hospice work?
An interdisciplinary team of professionals, the patient, the patient’s family, and a physician of choice collaborate to create a plan of care. Each plan of care is developed with individual needs in mind. The goal is to provide holistic care: to address the physical, spiritual, social, and financial needs of the patient and family. The team includes nurses, physicians, social workers, home health aides, clergy, bereavement counselors, and volunteers.