HOSPICE
Who We Are
1&1 Hospice represents a group of healthcare professionals dedicated to assisting people during their life transition. We help people complete their life’s work quietly with grace and dignity in the privacy of their own home, wherever they call home. Be it in a house, skilled nursing facility or hospital, we are there in person. Utilizing today’s technology, we will make sure that you or your loved one are always connected to someone within our group. You should never feel alone.
What We Do
1&1 Hospice care provides medical services, emotional support, and spiritual resources for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness. 1&1 Hospice also helps family members manage the practical details and emotional challenges of caring for a dying loved one.
When to Qualify
Patient is eligible for hospice care after being certified by the primary care physician, that’s the Medicare answer. When the patient is in a place of acceptance and ready to cherish their remaining portion of life, that’s the emotional answer. When the family and friends are ready to embrace the patient in their choice, that’s the practical answer. When the time is right, everyone will know.
What is Hospice?
Hospice does not seek to lengthen life nor hasten death, but focuses on the quality of life. Hospice is a benefit program of health care and services designated to meet the special needs of patients and their loved ones, when the patient is diagnosed with a disease for which they elect comfort and palliative care.
- Hospice staff and volunteers offer a specialized knowledge of medical care, including pain management.
- The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of a patient's last days by offering comfort, compassion, and dignity.
- Hospice care is provided by a team-oriented group of specially trained professionals, volunteers and family members.
- Hospice addresses all symptoms of a disease, with a special emphasis on controlling a patient's pain and discomfort.
- Hospice deals with the emotional, social and spiritual impact of the disease on the patient and the patient's family and friends.
- Hospice offers a variety of bereavement and counseling services to families before and after a patient's death.
- The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of a patient's last days by offering comfort, compassion, and dignity.
- Hospice care is provided by a team-oriented group of specially trained professionals, volunteers and family members.
- Hospice addresses all symptoms of a disease, with a special emphasis on controlling a patient's pain and discomfort.
- Hospice deals with the emotional, social and spiritual impact of the disease on the patient and the patient's family and friends.
- Hospice offers a variety of bereavement and counseling services to families before and after a patient's death.
Why Choose Us?
Our goal is to keep you comfortable and improve your quality of life while you are dying. This philosophy differs from usual medical treatment in that the focus is on comfort and quality of life versus the curing of the disease. Hospice services are not intended to speed up the dying process, however, focus on relieving pain and other negative symptoms.
Quality of Life
1&1 Hospice believes that when it comes to quality of life, each patient has his or her own vision. Care is patient-centered in that the patient dictates what is important to them and where their major priorities are. Based on what is discussed, 1&1 Hospice then develops a care plan and strategy that meets the patient’s goals and values. For example, one’s goal or value may be to live as long as possible, no matter the quality. 1&1 Hospice understands the importance of patient choice and self-determination and will do everything in our power to ensure one’s stated goals are respected and adhered to.