Hospice

Hospice offers specialized support to people who have a life limiting disease. Dedicated to quality of life, Hospice offers support system of experienced health care professionals who assist the patient and family in meeting their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. The team consists of the patient’s primary physician, registered nurses, social workers, a spiritual counselor, home health aides, trained Hospice volunteers and bereavement support. Services include: pain management, symptom management, spiritual support, personal care, acute and respite care, medications, medical equipment and supplies, specially trained volunteers and bereavement services. Services are provided in the person’s home, whether in their own home, nursing home or assisted living facility.

Ministry Home Care, known as Dr. Kate Hospice Services in the Lakeland Area, provides a full continuum of compassionate care. Based out of offices in Arbor Vitae and Rhinelander, our hospice professionals travel to the homes of patients throughout this beautiful region, including Forest, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, and Vilas Counties.

Hospice offers specialized support to people who have a life limiting disease. Dedicated to quality of life, Hospice offers support system of experienced health care professionals who assist the patient and family in meeting their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. The team consists of the patient’s primary physician, registered nurses, social workers, a spiritual counselor, home health aides, trained Hospice volunteers and bereavement support. Services include: pain management, symptom management, spiritual support, personal care, acute and respite care, medications, medical equipment and supplies, specially trained volunteers and bereavement services. Services are provided in the person’s home, whether in their own home, nursing home or assisted living facility.

Hospice care is a service to support people by providing end-of-life care when the patient’s condition is considered terminal and the patient is no longer receiving curative treatment. A terminal diagnosis is defined as the patient having six months or less to live if the condition runs its normal course. The hospice team works with patients to manage pain and symptoms so that their remaining time may be spent in peace and dignity. Dedicated to quality of life, hospice offers a support system of professional staff and volunteers who assist the patient and their family in meeting their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. Hospice care stresses the importance of human needs that go beyond the physical care of the patient. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal process.

Hospice offers specialized support to people who have a life limiting disease. Dedicated to quality of life, Hospice offers support system of experienced health care professionals who assist the patient and family in meeting their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. The team consists of the patient’s primary physician, registered nurses, social workers, a spiritual counselor, home health aides, trained Hospice volunteers and bereavement support. Services include: pain management, symptom management, spiritual support, personal care, acute and respite care, medications, medical equipment and supplies, specially trained volunteers and bereavement services. Services are provided in the person’s home, nursing home or assisted living facility.

Provides 24 hour Nursing Staff, Social Workers, Volunteers, Spiritual Coordinators and Bereavement Staff to ensure the wishes and needs of the hospice patient and the entire family are being met during an individuals end of life.

Provides comprehensive hospice services that encompass physical, psychosocial and spiritual care for persons with terminal illness and for their families. Focus is on comfort, not cure emphasis is on improving the quality of remaining life. Hospice care is provided wherever patient lives, including private home, hospital, community residential facility and nursing home. Services include nursing care, social work, medical care and therapy in collaboration with the person’s private physician. Additional services for hospice patients include: *Respite Care*Durable Medical Equipment*Prescription medications as appropriate*Service coordination*Lab, X-ray and other diagnostic tests as appropriate*Palliative care*Grief Center *Community Education

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Heartland Hospice provides care to patients wherever they call home: in the house they’ve lived in for years, a skilled nursing center, an assisted living facility or independent living facility. Our caregivers work with patients to create individualized care plans and set personal goals. They encourage patients to make the right decisions on their own behalf and help fill their lives with meaningful experiences. Pain and symptoms are managed so patients can be as comfortable as possible. Our social workers and spiritual counselors help patients and families share thoughts, hopes, concerns and dreams.

Hospice House is an alternative home for hospice patients, which offers a place of comfort and companionship for patients with end-stage illnesses. Hospice House is a service of Aspirus Comfort Care and Hospice Services, and offers a compassionate and safe environment in a home-like setting. Hospice House is staffed 24 hrs./day by Certified Nursing Assistants, Licensed Practical Nurses and RN’s. All needed hospice services, including nursing, social work, counseling, medication and supplies continue to be provided as they would in the patient’s own home.

For those times when it is not possible for end-of-life care to be provided at home, the House of the Dove is specifically designed to meet the residential needs of individuals receiving hospice care. The House of the Dove is a beautiful facility constructed to provide care of all levels of hospice patients – Residential, Acute, and Respite. With 12 patient suites, the home is able to meet the broader needs of people in the region.

Interim Hospice and Palliative Care, LLC optimizes the quality of life for patients and families who are living with a terminal and/or life threatening illness by anticipating, treating and preventing suffering and facilitating patient autonomy, access to information and choice in the physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions of holistic care and services provided by our compassionate interdisciplinary team.

LeRoyer Hospice and Outpatient Palliative Care are both home-based programs focusing on maintaining comfort, providing emotional & spiritual support and improving the quality of life for patients and their families. Hospice care is for the terminally ill in the final months of life. In contrast, Palliative Care is provided more “upstream” and is appropriate for a much broader group of patients and, unlike hospice, may be provided at the same time as other potentially life prolonging treatments for the illness (such as chemo/radiotherapy or dialysis). Both hospice and palliative care offer a personalized plan of care, delivered by an interdisciplinary team that incorporates what is most important to the patient and family in order to achieve the best possible quality of life.

The Palliative Care Program has two components: 1) The Palliative Care Unit is a unique specialized hospital unit specifically for patients with life-limiting illness. Patients are admitted or transferred to the PCU for symptom management and/or terminal care. Care is provided by a specially trained palliative care team. 2) The Palliative Care Consultation Services provides guidance and expertise to patients and families when requested by the patient’s primary physician. Patients and families are seen throughout the hospital setting and on an outpatient basis by a palliative medicine specialist and advance practical nurse.

For individuals who are unable to remain at home during their final months of life, Dr. Kate Hospice provides care to patients at our hospice home in Woodruff – Seasons of Life. The peaceful residence is tucked in a scenic wooded area on the edge of town.