- What Services are Provided by the Holistic Care Team?
- How is Care Provided?

Family members and friends often provide what care they are able to and, when appropriate, assist in making decisions for the patient. With skilled help from Holistic Health Care, patients and their loved ones are able to peacefully receive a health professional that will make regular visits to assess the patient and provide additional care or other services. Additional staff is on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They also help the patient and the patient’s family members deal with their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs.

What Services are Provided by the Holistic Care Team?

Among its major responsibilities, the interdisciplinary hospice team:

• Manages the patient’s pain and symptoms, including inpatient care if needed

• Assists the patient with the emotional, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying

• Provides needed drugs, medical supplies, and equipment

• Coaches the family on how to care for the patient

• Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed

• Provides inpatient respite care

• Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends

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How is Care Provided?

An interdisciplinary team of skilled and caring professionals coordinates holistic home pain management and symptom control.

The team usually consists of:

• The patient’s personal physician

• Hospice physician/medical director

• Nurses

• Home health aides

• Social workers

• Clergy or other counselors

• Speech, physical, and occupational therapists

• Trained volunteers

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