"Making Final Moments Matter"
Goals
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To provide palliative and supportive care to both the patient and family experiencing a life threatening illness, that he/she may live comfortably and fully in the surroundings of his/her choice.
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To coordinate medical, psychological, spiritual, social, and practical services in order to facilitate day-to-day care.
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To encourage pain control and symptom management where applicable.
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To promote death with dignity.
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To provide bereavement counseling and support, as well as Sudden Death Intervention.
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To provide community education and services related to death, dying, and grief.
Objectives
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To develop a volunteer team and to provide initial and in-service training for the hospice volunteers.
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To integrate the hospice concept into existing health care systems.
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To blend professional and non-professional services by establishing credibility and information exchange with the medical community
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to coordinate the various components such as pastoral, medical, pharmaceutical, legal, and psychological.
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To provide volunteer services 24 hours a day on an on-call basis seven days a week.
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To provide a referral service to both the community and patients, utilizing all social service programs available.
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To continue to address changing community needs.