Hospice services from Country Care Hospice, Inc.

Our hospice care services are for adult patients with a wide range of life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, stroke, heart disease, lung disease, liver disease, kidney disease, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Alzheimer’s, and AIDS.

Hospice Home Care

Country Care Hospice, Inc. can bring hospice services to you or your loved one, in the place that’s the most comfortable home. And we’re experts at managing the transition from hospital to your home, from curative to palliative care.

Palliative care

Palliative care has been a board-certified medical specialty since 2006 in the US, but palliative care has been around for centuries. We’ve all had palliative medicine, also called comfort care. If you break a bone, you seek a cure: the doctor sets it and keeps it immobile in order for it to heal. But she prescribes painkillers to make you comfortable. The painkillers are palliative, they improve the quality of your life while you and your physician cope with your broken bone.

Generally, when we talk about palliative care, it’s in the context of serious illness: chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders; renal disease; chronic heart failure; HIV/AIDS, progressive neurological conditions, cancer, etc.

Hospice service

Focusing on the physical health and comfort of a patient, hospice care also focuses on the emotional needs and spiritual well-being of the terminally ill and their loved ones.

Hospice is the term for a special program of care for terminally ill (dying) patients and their families. Rather than trying to cure an illness, hospice efforts aim to make the patient comfortable, ease pain and other troublesome symptoms and support the family through a sad and difficult time.

Nursing care

Services include nursing care for special needs, chronic-conditioned patients, and terminally ill at home.

Medical social services

Medical social workers create long-range plans, such as advance care planning and educate both patients and their families about community resources and support. Medical social services include:

  • Assessing social and emotional factors
  • Advanced care planning
  • Community resource planning
  • Advanced directives
  • Crisis intervention
  • Counseling
  • Teaching regarding coping with loss and change

Respite Care

Respite care is focused primarily on the family. Taking care of your loved ones sometimes can be both physically and emotionally exhausting. Respite Care provides non-medical care during the absence of the family caregiver. Thanks to our caregivers, you will get a free time to relax and regain energy and positive thinking.

Bereavement support

We offer continuing grief and bereavement support to families and friends for up to thirteen months. Even after that time, we are there for you to listen and help you work through your grief.

Spiritual services

24-hour care or on-call care

Volunteer care