Levels Of Care
Harbor Hospice provides care as life begins to draw to its close. The care is delivered to the patient in a choice of settings that include the following:
At Home
Home care is the core of what hospice care is all about. Nine out of ten Americans say they want to die at home, free of pain, surrounded by people they love. Hospice care delivered to you in your own home helps make that wish a possibility.
It is not an easy task for a family to take the role of caregiver for the terminally ill loved one. Hospice care helps by providing nursing care and physician visits to the home, social workers to meet with the patient and the family on the emotional issues they’re handling. Certified Home Health Aides come in several times per week to assist with daily chores such as bathing. Spiritual care is offered; volunteer help is extended. The family is surrounded with resources so they can help their loved one die with dignity.
In a Skilled Nursing Facility
For almost 25% of the people we care for, home is a nursing home. Why would someone in a nursing home need Hospice care? Think of it this way: When someone is dying, they want the specialists in end of life care and Hospice is that specialist.
The dying process changes a patient’s needs. Hospice care addresses those needs, be it pain control, symptom management, equipment, medications, or just extra time and attention for routine activities. Hospice care gives the patient another layer of care and that help extends to family members as well. The hospice team includes physicians, nurses, social workers, home health aides, volunteers, spiritual caregivers, and grief counselors. Simply put, we augment the good care the patient is already getting.
At the Poppen Hospice Residence
The hospice residence is designed to assist those patients in their last days who cannot or choose not to be cared for at home. The facility has been designed to consider every comfort that would make a patient feel at home.
Typically, patients only spend a few weeks using a residential facility. Hospice care may begin at home and move to the facility when the patient is best served by 24-hour nursing, or perhaps because a caregiver cannot be there as much as needed or is too frail to meet the needs. Families are more spread out in today's world and more people are working outside the home. Both factors contribute to the need for residential hospice care.
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