While hospice provides patients with hospital gowns, feel free to bring in patients' pajamas. Hospice cannot, however, launder personal patient clothing. With physician permission, patients may bring in eye and eardrops and some creams or lotions to the unit. Nursing staff members will dispense those medications depending on physician order. Hospice staff members will order patient medications.
Hospice provides rooms on the units for families' use.
Hospice offers family members a quiet meditation room on both units with MusiCare resources including relaxing CD's and tapes. At the Norton Healthcare Pavilion, a shower room also is available for family use and restrooms are located in the family room. Each patient room at Audubon has a shower in it. Several fast food restaurants are located within walking distance of the unit. At the pavilion, vending machines are located in the Family Room on the unit.