What is Hospice?
Hospice focuses on caring and comfort, not cure and is offered to adults, children and infants with life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, end-stage heart and lung disease, kidney disease, liver disease and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease.
Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island, the third-oldest hospice in the nation and the largest and most experienced hospice agency in the state, provides quality, compassionate health care to people facing the advanced stages of life-threatening illnesses.
We support patients - regardless of their ability to pay - in their own homes, nursing homes, hospitals and assisted-living facilities and at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center, in Providence, RI. HHCRI's hospice services are available by telephone 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What does hospice provide?
- Physician services for the medical direction of the patient's care
- Regular home visits by nurses
- Medical supplies, such as catheters and bandages
- Medical equipment, such as hospital beds and wheelchairs
- Delivery of medications, medical supplies and equipment
- Medications for pain relief and symptom management
- Home health aide services for personal care, such as dressing and bathing
- Social work services
- Spiritual care
- Grief counseling
- Volunteer support to provide companionship to the patient and help for family members
- Short-term inpatient and respite care
- Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech/language services
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