Joy Jones, R.N. Community HospiceCare An Affiliate of Floyd Medical Center Hospice is a special kind of care for people who are in the end stages of a terminal illness.
Care takes place in the patient s home.
Hospice staff concentrate on making patients as free of pain and as comfortable as they want to be so they can make the most of the time that remains for them. The hospice philosophy is that helping family members is an essential part of its mission. And finally, hospice promotes quality of life as equally important as the length of life. Community HospiceCare has cared for over 2,000 patients and their families in Floyd, Polk, Bartow, Gordon and Chattooga counties since its beginning at FMC in 1992. About 78 percent of our patients have cancer, and many of the rest have heart disease or other incurable illnesses.