At Heart to Heart Hospice we focus on providing comfort, preserving dignity and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced illness, so that they can focus on living well.
Heart to Heart: An Innovative Hospice Program for Heart Failure Patientsdoi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.06.223Abigail NewtonMartha HagerRonetta MarhooverPatricia PletkeStephen RennysonelsevierJournal of Cardiac Failure
Please Join Us for Heart 2 Heart with Hospice, a monthly outreach program hosted by Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice and held via ZOOM. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday April 26thfrom 6-7 pm . Come and join us for an evening of caring, and sharing- where we reach out to o...
I met Connie the day she was admitted to the hospice ward, where I worked as a volunteer. Her husband, Bill, stood nervously nearby as she was transferred from the gurney to the hospital bed. Although Connie was in the final stages of her fi...
This meta-analysis evaluates the ratio of heart failure (HF) to all-cause hospitalizations in randomized clinical trials, whether differences in all-cause
Guidelines recommend hospice care for patients with advanced heart failure (HF) who are approaching end of life. However, little is known about the data available when HF patients are admitted to hospice. This pilot study surveyed the staff from100 hospices in the United States and Canada about...
The culmination of the trail saw the hearts appearing in a farewell exhibition, before an auction took place to find their forever homes and help raise funds for the hospice. Two members of our marketing team attended the exclusive event and were delighted when our winning bid secured the Bee...
Stage Stage D (patient with end-stage disease who is frequently hospitalized for chronic heart failure or who requires special treatments such as LVAD, artificial heart, ionotropic infusions, heart transplant or hospice care) Medication Patient already receiving maximal medical treatment with digoxin, di...
The odds of surviving their hospital stay for heart failure differ between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white patients according to their level of heart function, even when they received equal care in hospitals participating in the American Heart Associatio
One week from the day that my daughter’s reconstruction surgery was scheduled in Houston, my dad’s hospice nurse said she wasn’t sure I should plan to be in Houston with my daughter for the surgery. That was the first real alarm sounded about my dad’s condition. We knew, of course...