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At American Hospice we believe every person, family and relationship is unique. When you choose us to provide hospice care, we become partners ensuring the highest quality services and support are provided to all. The caregivers at American Hospice focus on the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient, family and loved ones.

Hospice Services

At American Hospice, we are very proud of the medically directed, team-oriented care that we provide to our patients. Each team member closely consults with the other professionals, maximizing their strengths as together they design a care plan for each patient and support for their families and loved ones. Assembled for each individual case, the team likely includes:

Physicians: The patient's own physician works with hospice physicians, who are specialists in controlling pain and other symptoms of a serious illness. They prescribe medications and other methods of pain and symptom control.

Nurses: Experts at determining the patient's individual needs and maintaining patient comfort, nurses frequently assess the patient. It is their continuing goal to help family members provide necessary support. 

Certified Nurse Assistants and Home Health Aides: These essential team members provide personal care, helping the patient and family with activities of daily living as well as providing companionship and valuable emotional support.

Social Workers: With a wide variety of community resources at their fingertips, social workers can coordinate resources while helping the patient and family members ease emotional difficulties while planning for the future.

Chaplains and Spiritual Counselors: Patients and families sometimes need guidance with spiritual questions and concerns at the end of life, services that the family's spiritual counselors can coordinate.

Bereavement Coordinators: Both patients and families experience grief, and these coordinators can help in many ways. Grief support services continue for at least one year following the death of a loved one.

Volunteers: Invaluable and selfless, volunteers provide companionship and emotional support, and offer help in countless ways.

Why American Hospice?

American Hospice offers the communities it serves the choice of hospice care for those who are facing life-limiting illness. We provide quality physical, emotional and spiritual care for the terminally ill and ongoing support for their loved ones, and seek to serve healthcare professionals and nursing homes through education and support.

We are made up of multiple local teams of professionals and volunteers committed to providing the highest quality care to their communities. Because our roots are in this area, we understand the needs of our neighbors and seek to serve our patients and their loved ones by providing best in class care in surroundings that are comfortable and familiar.

American Hospice is backed by Voyager HospiceCare – a network of community hospice organizations with the same mission: to continually advance and improve an unparalleled level of care and support to individuals, families and loved ones as they face the realities of life-limiting illness. Voyager is directed by experienced professionals who provide the financial and operational expertise its organizations need to continue on their important mission.