Manager-Hospice Development Rush Hospice Partners is a community based, not for profit hospice program which was designed to meet the hospice needs of the Rush System for Health. Rush Hospice Partners is licensed by the state of Illinois, certified by Medicare and Medicaid and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Rush Hospice Partners currently provides quality, compassionate hospice care to persons and families facing end of life issues who reside in Cook, DuPage and Lake Counties. Rush Hospice Partners provides care through the use of an interdisciplinary team which is comprised of a nurse, social worker, chaplain, home health aide, volunteer, their physician and the hospice medical director.
Every patient is assigned a team.
Rush Hospice Partners offers several bereavement programs and grief groups which are open to the public, regardless of whether they are a hospice family or whether they are troubled by a loss in their life. As part of its Team, Rush Hospice Partners uses volunteers in a variety of ways from direct patient contact to assisting the administrative team with office activities, to bereavement support, to fundraising and special events. We are here to help you.