What Hospice Is

What Hospice Is

Hospice is a specialized care that focuses on the quality of life, for a person dealing with an incurable disease or diagnoses, that have brought about a decline. Hospice care provides compassionate care for people, their family and extended loved ones.

Hospice care focuses on the totality of the person’s physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. Our focus is on the symptoms related to the decline, rather than the disease state. Hospice care is family-centered and our goal is to not take the place of the family but to add additional support to the family.

What Golden Rule Offers

At Golden Rule Hospice, we help you and your loved ones in a holistic way that supports body, mind and spirit:

• We treat symptoms and reduce pain in a way that respects the wishes of the patient, family, and physician.
• We help patients to spend less time in the hospital and more time at home.
• Our staff and volunteers engage patients with companionship, music, art therapy, and more.
• We offer bereavement support to family and caregivers.
• Our chaplain offers spiritual care and guidance to patients and their loved ones.