A*Med Hospice Cypress

About Us

A*Med Hospice Cypress TX provides a high quality, comprehensive palliative program dedicated to promoting comfort and quality of life for clients and families facing a terminal illness. In recognition that facing a life limiting disease is much more than a physical experience, A*MED Hospice in Cypress TX utilizes an interdisciplinary team approach to provide services for their clients and families. As human beings, we experience emotional and spiritual losses as well as physical during the dying process. Through meeting the numerous needs of the clients and families, we strive to enable the client to live life to the fullest extent possible and the family to adjust to life after their loss.

A*Med Community Hospice

"Hospice care is an appropriate and compassionate choice when a client and family are facing life-limiting illness and no longer desire aggressive curative treatment."

Mission Statement

To provide a high quality, comprehensive palliative program dedicated to promoting comfort and quality of life for clients and families facing a terminal illness. In recognition that facing a life limiting disease is much more than a physical experience, A*MED Community Hospice utilizes an interdisciplinary team approach to provide services for their clients and families. As human beings, we experience emotional and spiritual losses as well as physical during the dying process. Through meeting the numerous needs of the clients and families, we strive to enable the client to live life to the fullest extent possible and the family to adjust to life after their loss.

Services/Programs

A client is ready for hospice when they:

• Have a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness.
• Certified by a physician as having a life expectancy of six months or less.
• Agree to no further aggressive curative treatment.
• Agree to palliative care and comfort support.

Pain Management

A*MED Community Hospice strives to ensure our clients are as pain free as possible. Clients are individually assessed to ensure physical, psychosocial and spiritual comfort.

Hospice provides supportive care through:

Nurses -

• Home visits to assess client's condition
• Provide pain management
• Available 24 hours a day

Medical Social Workers -

• Counseling for client and family
• Liason between patient and community agencies
• Provide assistance with legal and financial issues

Therapists - available as needed

• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy

Chaplains -

    Caring for the spiritual needs of client and family

Home Health Aides -

• Providing light housekeeping
• Assistance with client's personal hygiene
• Light meal preparations

Volunteers -

• Companion to medical appointments
• Emotional support
• Transportation

Bereavement Support offered to family members up to one year after loss.

Advantages of Hospice:

• Hospice Physician Support
• Client can remain home with desired quality of life
• Medical equipment, medical supplies and medications related to the terminal illness
• Supportive care for family
• On-call 24 hour availability
• Covered by Medicare, Medicaid and many third party Payors
• Bereavement support

A*Med Home Health

Caring, Comfort, Compassion...for all your home health care needs.

Philosophy, Mission, and Vision

A*Med Home Health's philosophy is founded on the principle that home health care is an essential component in the delivery of health care. The agency is committed to providing the highest quality services to its clients. It is A*Med's belief that by utilizing and collaborating its resources in the continuum of care, quality and excellence are achieved.

A*Med's mission is to provide excellent care and achieve positive outcomes for its clients through comprehensive, cost effective, and quality services. Enhancing the health and well being of its clients promotes wellness. Utilization of available resources, consumer surveys, staff involvement, state and federal regulations, recognition of community and industry needs, technology, education, self evaluation, leadership, and financial stability will promote this mission.

A*Med's Board of Directors, in 2002, developed a vision statement to confirm its belief that Home Care is an essential part of the health care delivery system. Our agency's focus is to improve the quality of care available to the communities we serve.

We Set the Standard

A*Med Home Health has set the standard for excellence among home health care providers in the areas in which we are privileged to serve.

The company firmly adheres to all local, state, and federal requirements and patient admission standards. We have an unwavering commitment to enhancing the independence of our patients and strive to become partners with them as they progress through their recovery. We are equally committed to their families and loved ones and support them with appropriate and ongoing caregiver education.

Professional Staff

• Skilled Nursing RN's and LVN's
• Certified Nurse Aides
• Medical Social Workers
• Physical Therapists
• Speech Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Respiratory Therapists
• Registered Dieticians