Hospice focuses on palliative care, that is, care to promote comfort and quality of life, rather than curative treatment. Patients and their families are the driving force in the decision-making process of what care and help is needed. Hospice is able to make it possible for a person to remain at home and be surrounded by his/her family even during a life-threatening illness. Hospice also recognizes and responds to the needs of surviving loved ones by providing bereavement support.. St. Joseph's Hospice is a Medicare-certified,Joint Commission approved hospice program. Hospice provides high quality care to meet the physical,emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients and their loved ones,including the following services:
* Physician services
* Skilled nursing
* Home health aide care
* Social work
* Spiritual care
* Physical,occupational,speech therapy
* Bereavement services
* Homemaking services
* Medical equipment
* Medications related to the terminal illness