Providing Comfort, Care, Support
Chattahoochee Hospice has been providing health services to families in the Greater Valley Area since 1983. We are striving to constantly improve the care and support we provide our patients and their families.
Hospice services are available for anyone with a life-limiting illness as determined by the patient's physician. We provide these services without regard to race, gender, religion, national origin or financial resources. When the focus of care shifts from cure to comfort, hospice should be considered. Contacting Chattahoochee Hospice early helps you better understand your options and have the most impact on quality of life.
What is Hospice
The hospice concept of health care attempts to make a patient's remaining life as comfortable and meaningful as possible. It is a special kind of healthcare that focuses on keeping the patient comfortable once the patient and physician have decided that the underlying disease can no longer be treated or cured.
Hospice is not a particular place or a person, but a philosophy of care provided by a team of professionals and lay people. Hospice care addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of each patient, family members and care givers so that patients can make the most of their day.
Hospice care neither hastens nor postpones death and is focused on the belief that quality of life is as important as length of life. Hospice focuses on caring, not curing, and in most cases care is provided in the patient's home.
What We Offer
Generally speaking, people who are terminally ill need care in four areas: physical comfort, mental and emotional needs, spiritual issues, and practical tasks. We offer compassionate and specialized care that helps you live each day to the fullest.
When a patient is admitted to Chattahoochee Hospice a comprehensive care plan is developed and includes some or all of the following services:
Hospice services are available for anyone with a life-limiting illness as determined by the patient's physician. We provide these services without regard to race, gender, religion, national origin or financial resources. When the focus of care shifts from cure to comfort, hospice should be considered. Contacting Chattahoochee Hospice early helps you better understand your options and have the most impact on quality of life.
What is Hospice
The hospice concept of health care attempts to make a patient's remaining life as comfortable and meaningful as possible. It is a special kind of healthcare that focuses on keeping the patient comfortable once the patient and physician have decided that the underlying disease can no longer be treated or cured.
Hospice is not a particular place or a person, but a philosophy of care provided by a team of professionals and lay people. Hospice care addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of each patient, family members and care givers so that patients can make the most of their day.
Hospice care neither hastens nor postpones death and is focused on the belief that quality of life is as important as length of life. Hospice focuses on caring, not curing, and in most cases care is provided in the patient's home.
What We Offer
Generally speaking, people who are terminally ill need care in four areas: physical comfort, mental and emotional needs, spiritual issues, and practical tasks. We offer compassionate and specialized care that helps you live each day to the fullest.
When a patient is admitted to Chattahoochee Hospice a comprehensive care plan is developed and includes some or all of the following services:
- Registered nurses making regularly scheduled visits
- On call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week service
- Hospice nursing aides providing total personal care
- Medical equipment and supplies
- Medications related to the terminal illness
- Social Workers providing emotional support, assistance with community resources and end of life issues
- Training of caregivers in meeting patients' needs
- Chaplains providing spiritual care for patients, families and friends
- Volunteers providing companionship and support to patients and caregivers
- Physical, occupational and speech therapies for palliative needs
- Respite Care – relieving the caregiver for up to five days at an approved facility
- General Inpatient – hospital care for symptom management that cannot be achieved at home
- Continuous Home Care - to achieve palliation and management of acute medical symptoms during periods of crisis
- Grief counseling for individuals and in group settings
- Bereavement services offered to families and caregivers
You are here: Home Page