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Catholic Community Hospice offers special services to meet the distinctive needs of seriously ill patients in assisted living facilities and to accompany the care the facility provides.
Hospice care is for patients who are centered on comfort and can be most helpful to patients who have a prognosis of months, rather than weeks. A plan of care is created for each patient, modified to meet the patient’s needs and enhance quality of life.
Patients receive frequent visits from the Catholic Community Hospice staff, experts at making patients as comfortable as possible.
Care from Catholic Community Hospice includes:
- Informing the patient and family on care needs, the disease process, nutrition, medications, physical changes and spiritual and emotional concerns.
- Regularly assessing the patient’s condition and comfort.
- Attending to pain or other symptoms and adjusting medications when necessary to increase comfort, energy conservation and enhance quality of life.
- Assistance with bathing, dressing and other personal care.
- Updates for family, especially those who live out of town.
- Medications, equipment, oxygen and other supplies related to the patient’s terminal illness.
- Coordinating care and communicating with the patient’s physician.
- Providing support to ease emotional and spiritual distress for the patient and family.
- Assistance with nursing procedures and other technical help.
- On-call nurses 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for questions and visits.
- Help assembling additional resources if needed.
Our staff specialize in working with patients who have life-limiting illnesses. Team members call on patients frequently and are never more than a phone call away.
A registered nurse provides skilled nursing care and also coordinates care with the facility staff and with the other members of the Catholic Community Hospice team. Social workers, chaplains, home health aides, volunteers and other therapists are on hand to visit the patient and family and provide support.
Collaboration With Facilities
We work with patients in the facility they choose. An important part of what Catholic Community Hospice does is work in partnership with the assisted living facility staff to help meet the patient’s needs and to provide added care for family members, such as assisting with communication and providing emotional support and updates to families.
Individualized Care
The extra one-on-one attention and personal care can permit the patient to continue to be independent longer in the assisted living facility.
As a patient’s needs change, the Catholic Community Hospice team adjusts visits and care appropriately. The team also can help the patient and family identify further resources as needed.
How Service Begins
Service starts with a phone call from the patient’s physician, a facility staff member, a hospital staff member, a family member or the patient. Call 913-621-5090 to schedule an assessment to see how Catholic Community Hospice can help and whether hospice or another program is right for you. Or, contact us online.
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th of May. Her full-time job is on-call nurse during the week for all of our patients. Due to several nurses being out due to illness in May Kathy graciously agreed to also work during the daytime hours and make patient visits. Kathy is a very compassionate and caring nurse to all the patients she sees. Thank you Kathy.