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What is Hospice Care?
Hospice care is considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness, injury, or terminal illness. Hospice care does not hasten or postpone death. Hospice care is intended to enhance the quality of life for people with terminal illnesses by attending to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of each patient and their family. |
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Visiting Nurse Association of Northern NJ’s (VNA) hospice care provides a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes.
Why VNA hospice? VNA is a full-service hospice provider, bringing comfort and care to individuals and families in their own homes or at the organization’s inpatient unit at Saint Clare’s Dover Hospital. An individualized care plan is devised for every client based upon their needs and preferences. Plans are developed in conjunction with VNA’s extensive breadth of home care offerings, ensuring that hospice services are an integral component in treating individuals with dignity and compassion in the end stages of life. VNA offers Hospice at Home and Inpatient Hospice to meet the wishes and needs of patients and their loved ones.
Hospice at Home brings medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support to the patient and family. For patients that have needs or desires that require additional support, VNA’s Inpatient Hospice provides 24-hour care on a 12-bed unit at Saint Clare’s Dover Hospital. VNA coordinates seamless transfers between an individual’s home and the inpatient unit. In both settings, VNA provides skilled nursing; physician case oversight; pain and symptom management; rehabilitative therapy; registered dietician/nutrition services; counseling by licensed social workers; chaplains; and practical home health aide assistance with personal hygiene and household tasks. In the difficult months following the passing of a loved one, the VNA also offers bereavement counseling for family members. |
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Contact VNA
Hospice at Home and Inpatient Hospice is arranged by request of the patient, the patient’s physicians, hospital discharge planner, or the patient’s caregiver(s). Contact the VNA here https://vnannj.org/contact.html or by calling 1-800-WE VISIT (1-800-938-4748) |
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care services from VNA focus on providing compassionate practical assistance with pain and symptom management for patients with serious illness, regardless of diagnosis or stage of disease. Our goal is to improve the quality of life for both patients and families. Palliative care is often provided along with curative treatment. If at any point a decision is made that treatment is no longer helping, patients can easily transition to VNA’s Hospice at Home or Inpatient Hospice.
Individuals are cared for by a multidisciplinary team that works with the patient, family, and the patient’s doctors to provide medical, social, emotional, and practical support. When receiving palliative care, additional VNA home health services are available to patients and families, enabling comprehensive and easily accessible care.
Palliative care services from VNA focus on providing compassionate practical assistance with pain and symptom management for patients with serious illness, regardless of diagnosis or stage of disease. Our goal is to improve the quality of life for both patients and families. Palliative care is often provided along with curative treatment. If at any point a decision is made that treatment is no longer helping, patients can easily transition to VNA’s Hospice at Home or Inpatient Hospice.
Individuals are cared for by a multidisciplinary team that works with the patient, family, and the patient’s doctors to provide medical, social, emotional, and practical support. When receiving palliative care, additional VNA home health services are available to patients and families, enabling comprehensive and easily accessible care.
Facts About Hospice
Contact VNA
Palliative Care is arranged by request of the patient, the patient’s physicians, hospital discharge planner, or the patient’s caregiver(s). Contact the VNA here https://vnannj.org/contact.html or by calling 1-800-WE VISIT (1-800-938-4748).
Contact VNA
Palliative Care is arranged by request of the patient, the patient’s physicians, hospital discharge planner, or the patient’s caregiver(s). Contact the VNA here https://vnannj.org/contact.html or by calling 1-800-WE VISIT (1-800-938-4748).
