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Southcoast Hospice & Palliative Care
Southcoast Home Care Services, Hospice, Palliative Care & Infusion, a department of Southcoast Hospitals Group, is a private non-profit agency that provides comprehensive, preventive and rehabilitative home health care to residents of the Greater New Bedford and Wareham areas.
Southcoast Home Care Services, Hospice & Infusion is licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, certified through the Medicare program and Accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Our mission is to provide health care services and to take a leadership position in furthering the provision of quality health care for the benefit of the residents of greater New Bedford and Wareham.
Southcoast Hospice Volunteer Mission Statement is to embrace their role as models for excellence when providing non-medical care, with dignity and compassion, to families coping with impemding loss.
Description:
Hospice
Southcoast Hospice is an interdisciplinary program of the Home Care Services Department that provides care, comfort and support to terminally ill patients and families in their own homes.
Hospice is a philosophy of care that accepts death as a natural part of life. For individuals who have been diagnosed with a life expectancy of weeks or months, hospice care facilitates the highest quality of life possible. Southcoast Hospice program is about administering that quality of life through caring.
The hospice team, consisting of a registered nurse, the patient's physician, and a medical social worker offers a full scope of services to patients and their caregivers. Additionally there may be home care aides, rehabilitation services, volunteer services and spiritual and bereavement support.
Complementary therapies, which include Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Aromatherapy and Guided Imagery is available to all hospice patients.
Palliative Care
Our Palliative Care program is offered through Hospice. In this program, the hospice nurse cares for clients with terminal diagnoses who are not yet ready to give up active treatment. This facilitates a smooth transition to the hospice program when the time is right. In addition, the hospice program has contracted with area long-term care facilities to provide hospice care to terminally ill residents.
All hospice clients receive bereavement support for approximately thirteen months after the death of the patient. We provide ongoing support groups for hospice families and the community at large. Bereavement support groups are offered for adults in English and Portuguese and for children and adolescents from ages 5 through 18. These groups are free and open to the public.
Pediatric Palliative Care
The Pediatric Palliative Care Network helps children with life-limiting illnesses and their families gain a sense of control in their lives. We also help children and caregivers manage the pain and other symptoms brought on by illness. Our services strengthen the family by lessening the trouble and worry that family members often feel during this time in a child's life.
Contact person: Jo-Ann Richard, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (508) 984-0216
Address:
Web Site: http://www.southcoast.org/services/home
| Last updated on February 18, 2010 |
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