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.
Services
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.
Bereavement
When an Area Community Hospice patient dies, we have trained professionals to help the family with the grief process. We provide continued support with regular mailings and bereavement support groups held here in our office. Each year Area Community Hospice Inc., hosts an Annual Memorial Butterfly release. This is a special time that each family we have cared for in the past year is invited to honor the life of their loved one.
This memorial gives families a chance to honor their relationships with their loved ones and celebrate their lives. After the service, each family member is given a Monarch butterfly to release in honor of their loved one.
Throughout the 13 month period, Area Community Hospice bereaved the Scheduled of Groups, Workshops and Events which give information about the extensive bereavement services offered.
