Hospice & Palliative Care Services

Hospice & Palliative Care Services

The Hospice staff at North Country Home Health & Hospice Agency, provides pain and symptom management, assistance with personal care, emotional support, and teaching care of the terminally ill, all with the goal of providing quality end-of-life care.

Hospice is a centuries-old concept rooted in providing a place of shelter and rest to sick and weary travelers on a long journey. Hospice care provides humane and compassionate care for people in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.

The hospice philosophy recognizes death as the final stage of life and seeks to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones.

Hospice Care

• 24/7 clinical support
• Certified hospice nursing assessment
• Assistance with daily living activities and homemaking
• In-home provider visits for pain and symptom management
• Medical supplies. equipment and hospice medications
• Care management and navigation of other resources
• Volunteer support and companionship
• Caregiver education and training
• Social & spiritual support
• Bereavement and grief support

Palliative Care

• In Home consultation with a provider and/or Medical Social Worker
• Advanced care planning
• Symptom management recommendations to provider care team
• Social and spiritual support
• Bereavement and grief support

Medicare and most third party commercial insurers pay for Hospice services.

For more information, please call (603) 444-5317.