These services are provided without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, disease or handicap.
Hospice provides loving support for people in the final phases of a life-threatening illness.
Hospice focuses on care, rather than cure, and is based on the individual needs of the patients and family within the comforts and familiarity of home. Any resident of Madison County, Alabama who faces a life-threatening illness and is no longer seeking curative treatment can use Hospice Family Care. Patients are usually referred by their families, friends, physicians, home health agencies and nursing homes. Hospice provides a team of trained professionals that consists of physicians, nurses, social workers, aides, clergy, therapists and volunteers. The team works closely with the patient's physician and uses modern methods of pain and symptom control that enable the patient to live each day in comfort.