Home Health Care provided by a medically supervised team of professionals and volunteers including doctors directing the medical care, nursing staff helping manage physical symptoms, social workers counseling families and patients to help them understand the emotions they experience. Volunteers, spiritual coordinators, dietary staff, home health aides, and homemaker services also available as well as physical, occupational, and speech therapists.
Bereavement staff counsels families for 13 months as they cope with grief and loss after a loved one's death.
Palliative care is specialized medical care for persons with serious illness that focuses on comfort and improves the quality of life through the management of troubling symptoms such as pain, shortness of breath, or nausea. Also, provides education regarding disease progressions and assists in identifying goals of care and monitors for condition changes to avoid repeat hospitalizations and emergency room visits.
Palliative care is provided at any stage of illness and can be provided simultaneously with curative treatment or skilled care.
Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.
Palliative Care provides a team who can help manage the needs of the patient and family to prevent and avoid crisis, with illness may not be terminal, and they may choose to go through treatment for their illness. On-call availability 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week. Education on the disease process, treatment choices, and how to care for a loved one at home. Social workers ensure available community resources and services such as financial, emotional and educational support are being utilized. Spiritual comfort and support through home clergy visits. Administered in the home, hospital, extended care facility, or nursing home.May be covered by some insurance or is private pay with a sliding scale.
Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.
Home health nursing and aides. Offer skilled nursing care, maternal care, medical social work, palliative care, home medical equipment, and speech, physical, and occupational therapies.
Primary and tertiary care from birth to adolescence, including a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and Youth Village, a special teen-age unit.
Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.
Professional health care services in the home. Registered Nursing (RN) services include: high technological procedures (i.e., infusion therapy and central venous catheter care) and registered nursing and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) injections, wound and catheter care; gait training; and health education. Also offers physical, occupational, and speech therapists; medical social workers; certified nursing assistants; and telehealth and telehealth nursing. Services depend on personal and medical needs, the level of family involvement, and diagnosis.
Pediatric home nursing provides registered nurses and licensed practical nurses experienced in providing care according to the patients' individual needs and the doctor's orders. Includes both extended stay and skilled visits. Provides the ability to care for complex pediatric clients in their own home using ventilators, IV and TPN needs, trachs, g-tubes, central lines, respiratory medication, and monitoring equipment of all types.
Offers a variety of health-related clinics in various community locations. Includes seasonal influenza and pneumonia vaccinations, monthly scheduled foot-care clinics, and community wellness screenings.
Hospice care provides medical care, symptom and pain management, and social, emotional, and spiritual support to persons with a limited life expectancy and their families. Specially trained registered nurses, chaplain, home health aides, volunteers, social workers, and homemakers provide service in the home or in a residential hospice facility setting, and under the supervision of the patient's physician.
Palliative care provides pain and non-pain symptom management for patients with serious and life-threatening illness. Consultative services are provided by an interdisciplinary team with care centered on the needs of the patient and family, who are provided with counseling about the disease and assistance in identifying the patient's personal goals for care.
Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.
Palliative Care provides a team who can help manage the needs of the patient and family to prevent and avoid crisis, with illness may not be terminal, and they may choose to go through treatment for their illness. On-call availability 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week. Education on the disease process, treatment choices, and how to care for a loved one at home. Social workers ensure available community resources and services such as financial, emotional and educational support are being utilized. Spiritual comfort and support through home clergy visits. Administered in the home, hospital, extended care facility, or nursing home.May be covered by some insurance or is private pay with a sliding scale.
Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.