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Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide quality care for patients faced with a life limiting illness. The goal is to improve the quality of a person's life through pain and symptom control, emotional and spiritual support.

We believe the patient and family are an integral decision making member of the Hospice Team in planning care. Hospice offers an alternative to repeat hospitalizations. Hospice affirms life. It neither hastens nor postpones death bus assists the patient and family in living with a life limiting illness. Hospice regards dying as a normal process at life's end. We can provide dignity and comfort for the patient and loved ones.

Our Value

Provide the highest quality of care
Treat everyone with respect and dignity
Provide highest quality of service and continuity of care
Acknowledge and embrace religious, ethnic and cultural diversity
Encourage patient and family empowerment through education and choice
Maintain confidentiality and personal privacy
Facilitate staff's personal and profession development

What is Hospice?

Hospice is a special concept of care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments.
Hospice care neither prolongs life nor hastens death. Hospice staff and volunteers offer a specialized knowledge of medical care, including pain management.
The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of a patient's last days by offering comfort and dignity.
Hospice care is provided by a team-oriented group of specially trained professionals, volunteers and family members.
Hospice addresses all symptoms of a disease, with a special emphasis on controlling a patient's pain and discomfort.
Hospice deals with the emotional, social, and spiritual impact of the disease on the patient and the patient's family and friends.
Hospice offers a variety of bereavement and counseling services to families before and after patient's death.

Early History
The English word "hospice" is derived from the Latin hospitium, which originally referred to the guesthouse of a monastery or convent. The first hospices date back to the Middle Ages, when members of religious orders frequently took in dying people and nursed them during their last illness. Other hospices were built along the routes to major pilgrimage shrines in medieval Europe, such as Rome, Compostela, and Canterbury. Pilgrims who died during their journey were cared for in these hospices. The modern hospice movement, however, may be said to have begun in the United Kingdom during the middle of the nineteenth century. In Dublin, the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity undertook to provide a clean, supportive environment for care for the terminally ill. Their approach spread throughout England and as far as Asia, Australia, and Africa; but until the early 1970s, it had not been accepted on any wide scale in the United States.

The first hospice programs in North America opened during the 1970s. In New Haven, Connecticut, the Yale University School of Medicine started a hospice home care program in 1974, adding inpatient facilities in 1979. In 1976, another hospice/home-care program, the Hospice of Marin, began in northern California. After a slow start, interest in and enthusiasm for the hospice concept grew. Health professionals as well as the public at large embraced the idea of death with dignity. The notion of quality care at the end of life combined with grief counseling and bereavement care (counseling and support for families and friends of dying persons) gained widespread acceptance. The hospice movement also benefited from government efforts to contain health-care costs when reimbursement for inpatient hospital services was sharply reduced. Home-based hospice care is a cost-effective alternative to end-of-life care in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Contact Us

2800 Corporate Exchange Drive Suite 205
Columbus, Ohio 43231
Phone (614)890-8900
Toll Free (877)890-9740
Fax (614)890-6020

OR

7887 Washington Village Drive, Suite 35O
Dayton, OH 45459
Fax to (937) 433-O6O4
or e-mail amanda_acclaim@yahoo.com

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