About Hospice Community Hospice utilizes an interdisciplinary team approach to enable patients and families to cope with terminal illness. By providing teaching and supportive services, staff and volunteers enable families and caregiver to provide care to the patient while residing their own environment, be it home or a skill nursing facility. Bereavement support is provided to the family for 12 months after the patient's death. The mission of Community Hospice is to enhance quality of life for the terminally ill and their families. Philosophy Community Hospice is a coordinated home-care program for terminal patients and their families.
Hospice affirms life.
It recognizes dying as a part of the normal process of living and focuses on maintaining the quality of life, Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice exists in the hope and belief that through appropriate care and promotion of a caring community, sensitive to their needs, patients and their families may be free to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them. Admission Criteria Patients with a life expectancy of six months or less. Patients not receiving or planning to receive curative treatment or end of life support systems. Patients who desire to stay at home with hospitalization only in emergencies.