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- Our Mission
- Available Services
- Service Area
- Contact Information
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Eligibility Test
- Related Links
Our mission is to ensure comfort and empathetic care to patients and their families who are facing a life-limiting illness. We are dedicated to helping them celebrate life’s journey with dignity and respect.
Hospice care is provided as a team approach. When you or your loved one enrolls in hospice, the following team will work together with you to develop a plan of care designed specifically for you and your needs. Other duties for these team members include:
- Medical Director
- Co-certifies the terminal prognosis with the attending physician
- Leads the interdisciplinary team in the development of a plan of care
- Provides consultation to other physicians regarding hospice care
- Registered Nurse
- Assesses patient and family needs
- Develops plan of care to meet identified needs and coordinates team visits to ensure implementation of approved plan of care
- Coordinates care with attending physician, primary caregiver and/or long term care facility staff
- Ensures symptom control and pain management
- Provides patient/family teaching as needed
- Social Worker
- Assesses patient and family emotional, social, spiritual and financial needs
- Develops a plan of care to meet identified needs
- Provides direct counseling or refers patients and families to appropriate community agencies
- Chaplain
- Assesses patient and family spiritual needs
- Develops a plan of care to meet identified needs
- Provides direct counseling
- Assists with memorial preparations
- Provides consultations to community clergy
- Provides support at time of death and during bereavement
- Home Health Aide
- Provides direct personal care to patient
- Provides comfort measures, reports identified needs to RN Case Manager
- Provides emotional support to patient and family
- Volunteers
- Provides companionship, support to patient and family
- Provides needed non-medical services, letter writing, errands, respite time for family
Centennial hospice is dedicated to serving the patients and
their families of central
For additional information, please contact our
Patient Care Coordinator, Lesa Fisher
at: lfisher@centennialhospice.com or our Executive Director, Kathy Black
Last revised: 08/24/07