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Hospice is a support service that is ordered by a physician to help with the care of a terminally ill individual. Its focus is not on cure, but to keep the patient comfortable and as free from pain as possible. Hospice support includes visits by nurses several times a week as well as visits by nurse’s aides to help with bathing and shaving. The services of a social worker are available to connect the family to local resources and to help with any family conflict or discord. A chaplain is also available to assist the patient and family with spiritual concerns that often arise in the context of a terminal diagnosis.
Hospice services are for patients that have decided to let nature take its course and to focus on quality of life, rather than quantity of life. These comfort care services, as well as medicines and equipment related to the terminal condition, are fully covered by Medicare. Under current Medicare regulations, in order to receive hospice support a patient must forego all curative treatments. For more information about this and other types of care available, see our article about Getting Help.
Hospice of Tabitha
308-389-6002 or Toll Free 800-228-0417
Our Medicare-certified hospice team meets the emotional, spiritual, and comfort needs of people with life-limiting illnesses. Hospice provides care wherever you call home, including nursing and assisted living facilities. Skilled nursing visits, bereavement follow-up, social worker support, patient/family education, coordination of medical supplies, pain and symptom control and assistance with personal care are provided by nurses, social workers, clergy, home health aides and volunteers.
1425 North Webb Road
Grand Island, NE 68803
http://www.tabitha.org
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Find a hospice program near you by entering your state or zip code.
http://www.nhpco.org
Saint Francis Medical Center Hospice
308-398-5487 After Hours Phone: 308-384-4600
A team of professionals and volunteers under the direction of a physician provide medical, nursing, spiritual care and support for patients and their families in the last phases of incurable diseases. Care is provided mainly in the home setting, in contracted long term facilities in Grand Island and in surrounding communities. Follow up for the family continues into the bereavement period for a length of appropriate time, one year or more.
2116 West Faidley PO Box 9804
Grand Island, NE 68802
http://www.sfmc-gi.org
Inclusion of a service on this webpage does not imply endorsement by Grand Island Coalition for End of Life Care. Similarly, ommission of a service does not reflect criticism. We have simply included those services known to us at the time of creating this website. |
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