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Barbara L. Pearce currently serves as the interim CEO of Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Conn., the mature facility stemming from that first unit established primarily for cancer patients nearly 50 years ago. It was recently reaccredited with a unique combination of licenses: it is the first an...
Moments Hospice - where moments are forever. Moments Hospice has defined as its mission to affirm life during its final stages by providing compassionate care to patients and their families. Providing personal care and combining medical experience with m
patients with a prognosis of six months or less are defined as “hospice eligible.” When patients with ALS decide to discontinue the use of a feeding tube or breathing machine, they are likely to benefit from hospice services
Considering the slow decline of a patient with HIV/AIDS over months or years, it can be difficult to determine the final stages of HIV/AIDS and when the time is right for hospice. In general, hospice patients are thought to have six months or less to live. When patients with HIV/AIDS ...
Driven by funding models, hospice care services in the United States have primarily been part of a home care program, using inpatient care as a backup when needs cannot be met in the home. Patients with advanced dementia have not readily fitted into hospice programs because of lack of ...
Although hospice and palliative care share the same principles of providing comfort and support for patients, palliative care is available throughout a patient’s experience with cancer, whereas hospice is offered only toward the end of life. A person’s cancer treatment continues to be administered...
Facing advanced cancer is a journey that comes with many challenges for patients and their loved ones. Hospice care is often a compassionate choice when the focus shifts from aggressive treatment to prioritizing comfort and quality of life. For cancer patients in Las Vegas, hospice provides not on...
Although hospice and palliative care share the same principles of providing comfort and support for patients, palliative care is available throughout a patient’s experience with cancer, whereas hospice is offered only toward the end of life. A person’s cancer treatment continues to be administered...
Hospice patients use the emergency department (ED) for the management of symptoms, making it necessary for ED nurses to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to care for hospice patients. EDs should have staff specially trained to address end-of-life needs due to ED staff's minimal ...