Understanding Hospice Care: Compassionate Support for Patients and Families

What is Hospice?

Hospice care is dedicated to providing comfort and support for patients with terminal illnesses, helping them spend their remaining days with dignity, peace, and comfort. This care extends to both the patient and their family.

Hospice provides a team of physicians, nurses, CNAs, social workers, volunteers, bereavement counselors, and chaplains who work together to meet all the needs of the patient and their family.

Components of Hospice:

• Individualized care: based on preferences, needs, and values
• Pain and symptom management at the end of life
• Emotional and spiritual support
• Family support: education, counseling, and respite care

Who Can Benefit?

• Individuals with a life-limiting illness with a prognosis of six months or less

Where is it provided?

• Home: many patients prefer the comfort of their own home
• Contracted facilities: Mesa View Senior Living for long-term care or Hemphill County Hospital, depending on availability

Hospice is not a place — but an exceptional kind of care. Hospice is much more than nursing services. It is a specialized care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families during an advanced illness.

The transition to hospice often occurs when the decision is made to stop curative and aggressive medical treatment, and to focus on comfort care, known as palliative care. A comprehensive level of care, palliative care offers relief and comfort, as well as emotional and spiritual support. At the center of Hospice is a belief that everyone deserves to live pain-free, with peace and solace. It’s about living with hope and dying with dignity.

Hemphill County Hospice supports patients and families who choose hospice care at home — whether in a private home, or an assisted living or long-term care community. If symptoms cannot be managed at home, inpatient hospice care in Hemphill County Hospital’s hospice wing provides 24/7 support to patients and their families.

Hospice care is holistic and designed to support the needs of all family members and loved ones. Our care is about being an empathetic guide for patients and their caregivers.

Hemphill County Hospice emphasizes caring for the person, rather than the disease…on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure.  We offer this assurance — we will be there for you, providing compassionate care and knowledgeable guidance every step of your journey.

Proudly Serving these Counties in Texas:
Hemphill, Gray, Lipscomb, Roberts, and Wheeler