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What is Hospice?
Hospice & Palliative Care is an interdisciplinary team of volunteers and health care professionals who provide services and support to persons with limited life expectancy and their loved ones.
Through the centuries, the word hospice has meant a resting place for travelers. In modern times, the word hospice is used to describe a special concept of care for people who are facing a life-limiting illness or injury.
Today, hospice and palliative care programs provide care for individuals that choose to remain at home during the final phase of their lives.
Hospice and palliative care is oriented around the belief that every person has the right to die with dignity, free from pain and other unnecessary physical and mental suffering. To achieve this, a team of health care professionals and volunteers work together to provide patients and their loved ones with the physical, emotional and spiritual comfort they need as they deal with this difficult time of life. Because no two situations are alike, care plans are individualized to meet the unique needs of each person involved.
In coordination with the health care professional members of the hospice and palliative care team, volunteers are available to assist in a multitude of ways. Carefully screened and trained, these individuals are able to provide respite care so that caregivers can take a break. Additionally they are able to provide companionship, do errands or even assist with light household chores.
The goal of Hospice is to make the patient's final days as pain-free, pleasant and meaningful as possible. Hospice care seeks to support the patient's dignity and right of choice.
Services are provided to meet the medical, spiritual and emotional needs of patients and their families. In coordination with the rest of the Hospice team, volunteers may perform many services to assist the patient and family:
- Respite Care
- Companionship
- Light Household Chores
- Personal Care Tasks
- Errands
- Letter Writing and more
How is Hospice supported?
Health care insurance pays most of the cost for patients that have coverage. However, we endeavor to provide hospice and palliative care for all those that need this service, regardless of ability to pay. To pay for services in these cases, donations and memorial gifts are needed. Donations are fully tax deductible and may be used to provide assistance to those without resources.
Who are the Volunteers?
Volunteers are sensitive, caring individuals who have been carefully screened and trained to serve families with a terminally ill member. Volunteers have a variety of skills that can be used to provide relief for families of the terminally ill.
Volunteer service is coordinated and supervised by the staff of Lake Chelan Community Hospital
To Donate
To donate to the Hospice program, please make check out to LCCH Home Health & Hospice and send to:
LCCH Home Health & Hospice
PO Box 908
Chelan, WA. 98816. Patient Referrals: Call 509-682-8235. Fax information to
509-682-3826.
Click here to read The Ultimate Love Story, an article about how our Home Health & Hospice programs bless the lives of families in our community
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