Our Hospice
Care Team
We are dedicated to helping patients and their families make decisions
about their own care. The team provides coordinated and comprehensive
care to address the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual pain associated
with dying. All services of the hospice team as well as medications
and durable medical equipment necessary to the comfort of the patient
are included under insurance coverage.
The hospice interdisciplinary
team consists of:
Attending Physician
The patient’s physician remains in charge of the patient's medical
care and receives updates from the hospice nurse on a regular basis.
Hospice Medical
Director
Meets weekly with the hospice team and available for
consultation.
Registered
Nurse
The nurse provides scheduled visits for pain and symptom control;
assesses the patient's physical condition; and teaches the patient's
family and long term care staff about the patient's disease and treatment.
Home Health Aide
The home health aide works under the direction of the hospice nurse
and helps the patient with: shampooing hair, dressing and feeding,
giving special skin care, bed linens, light housekeeping and exercises.
Social Worker
The social worker helps patients and their families: cope with fears
and stress; put closure on relationships; adjust to role changes caused
by the patient’s illness; maintain coping skills; and talk about
the illness with children. They will recommend when to request help
from family and friends and encourage cooperation within the family.
They assist the family gain access to community, state and federal
programs that can provide additional support.
Volunteer
Trained volunteers provide many different services including relief
for the family and primary caregiver, phone calls to support patient
and family, emotional support, running errands, and giving the patient
and family assistance.
Chaplain
The chaplain provides spiritual support for patients and families
of any faith.
Music, Art,
and Dance/Movement Therapists
Creative arts therapists provide pain management and expressive opportunities
to patients and emotional support and healing to loved ones. Expression
of thoughts and feelings are processed through creative experience.
Complementary
Therapist
Keystone's Diplomate of Oriental Medicine offers acupuncture, massage,
moxabustion, cupping, and administers herbal prescriptions to assist
with pain management, physical discomfort, stress relief, and to provide
relaxation to those living with terminal illness.
Bereavement
Counselor
The bereavement counselor provides bereavement follow up during 13
months following patient's death. Bereavement follow-up is also provided,
as well as grief workshops for children.
