Services
Columbus
Hospice offers a full range of coordinated services from a variety of
health and social service professionals, as well as trained volunteers …all specialists in the care of the terminally ill.
When a patient is admitted to Columbus Hospice, a comprehensive care plan is developed which includes some or all of the following services:
- Regularly scheduled visits by a registered nurse
- 24-hour, 7 day-a-week on-call nursing
- Medical equipment and supplies
- Medications related to terminal illness
- Social workers providing counseling, assistance with Medicaid and Medicare applications, and coordinating with other community resources
- Training of family members to help care for the patient
- Spiritual care supporting the patient's belief system
- Relief support by trained volunteers
- Assistance with funeral arrangements
- Individual and group grief support counseling for the family
All services listed are also available to residents of our area's nursing
homes as well as residents of the Columbus Hospice House.
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