What Services Does the Hospice Team Provide?

Among its major responsibilities, the interdisciplinary hospice team:

• Manages the patient’s pain and symptoms;
• Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying;
• Provides needed medications, medical supplies, and equipment;
• Coaches the family on how to care for the patient;
• Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed;
• Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time; and
• Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.

Services

Day By Day Hospice offers a full range of coordinated services from a variety of health and social service professionals and volunteers …all team members are trained in the care of the terminally ill.  When a patient elects to receive Hospice care through Day By Day Hospice, a comprehensive care plan is developed which includes some or all of the following services:

●	Regularly scheduled visits by a registered nurse
●  24-hour, 7 day-a-week on-call nursing for emergencies, questions or concerns
●  Medical equipment and supplies related to terminal illness
●  Medications related to terminal illness
●  Social workers providing counseling, assistance with Medicare/ Medicaid     applications, advance directives and coordinating with other community                    resources
●  Training of family members to help care for the patient
●  Spiritual care supporting the patient's belief system
●  Assistance and support by trained volunteers
●  Assistance with funeral arrangements
●  Individual and group grief support counseling for the family
●  Home Health Aide / Homemaker services
●  Speech Language/ Physical/ Occupational Therapy as ordered by the physician
●  Dietary Counseling
●  Bereavement Services