100% of our Hospice Care is provided in the patient’s home, whether “home” for them is where they grew up, nursing home, assisted living facility, adult family home, etc.
Heartlinks Hospice Care is a highly specialized and individualized form of care designed to help patients with a life-limiting illness make the most of their final months.
Most people do not want to die in pain, alone in a hospital, hooked up to machines. They would prefer to be at home, with good pain and symptom management, and amongst things they are familiar and with people that they love. Heartlinks Hospice is dedicated to making this happen.
Heartlinks Hospice staff and volunteers help support patients, their families and friends, in focusing on what is most important to them…spending time together, sharing memories, saying goodbye, finding peace, and caring for one another.
Most Hospice patients have a life expectancy of six months or less. This is often a difficult time, yet many families report that hospice services helped them care for their loved one better and find meaning, even joy, in the last days of their loved ones life.
Your Care Team
Patients and their family are encouraged to be involved in making care decisions based on personal and family needs. You can be assured that as a patient of Heartlinks, you have a full team of caregivers accessible to you.
The Services
Heartlinks provides a wide spectrum of compassionate services to help patients and their families cope with a terminal illness and death. The goal of Hospice is to manage pain and other symptoms, enabling patients to spend their last days in dignity. Hospice accomplishes this goal by providing an array of medical, social, and spiritual services with the cooperation of both healthcare professionals and trained volunteers.
Physician Care
Spiritual Care
Respite Care
Medications related to Hospice diagnosis for pain and symptom management
Bereavement services offered 14 months after a loved one’s death
Education and training for you as a caregiver
Supplies
Medical Equipment needed for comfort
Music and Massage Therapy
Skilled Nursing
Personal Care
Social work
Pain and Symptom Management
Unique services for Veterans
A referral to any of our programs can be made by anyone, including family members, friends, or health care professionals.
Please call (509) 837-1676, and a member of our team will contact you as soon as possible.