It involves patients and their families and includes a comprehensive plan of treatment and rehabilitation made in collaboration with the patient s physician. We are able to serve clients who need medically necessary care but do not have the ability to pay full fee through support from the United Way of Chittenden County, cities and towns, and grants and contributions from individuals and companies. In addition to skilled nursing services, specialty nurses coordinate individualized care. Licensed nursing assistants help with personal care and activities of daily living. Physical, occupational and speech therapists aid clients in their rehabilitation.
Social workers link people with supportive services.
Top Hospice Services Hospice of the Champlain Valley Hospice is a specially coordinated home-based program that helps children and adults with a terminal illness, along with their families, cope with death by living life to its fullest. The interdisciplinary team emphasizes care directed toward expert pain and symptom control, maximizing independence and socialization and providing support. The interdisciplinary team includes nurses, social workers, licensed nursing assistants, trained volunteers, support staff, a bereavement care coordinator and clergy working under the direction of the patient s physician and a Hospice medical director. Top Palliative Care Program Palliative care helps those who have a life-threatening illness maintain the highest quality of life possible. Have an illness whose course is difficult to predict, such as heart, lung, liver, kidney or neurological disease May still wish to receive life-saving measures Referral for Palliative Care services may come from a physician, hospital discharge planner or a patient or family member.