In the spirit of respecting and honoring all the cherished moments that make up every individuals life path, Meridian At Home Hospice provides a valuable option for improving the quality of life for people facing a life-limiting illness.
No matter how trivial or strange my questions and requests have been, they've always treated us with the utmost respect, doing everything possible to keep my grandmother as comfortable as possible, and me as sane as possible.
Hospice Care
In the spirit of respecting and honoring all the cherished moments that make up every individual’s life path, up to and especially including the final steps, Meridian At Home Hospice provides a valuable option for improving the quality of life for people facing a life-limiting illness.
Qualified & Compassionate Team
Hospice has a qualified team of compassionate caregivers that work with patients and their families who are facing a life-limiting illness. Our nurses, and home health aides, fully understand the complex needs of patients and their families.
These team members provide:
• Attendance by qualified and caring staff members who are all highly sensitive to and fully equipped to meet the specific needs of hospice patients.
• Arrangement and delivery of all medical equipment, supplies, and medications related to the terminal illness.
• Education about the illness, what to expect as the disease progresses, and how to cope with each phase.
• Instruction to family members on how to help care for their loved one.
• Regularly scheduled visits by a registered nurse who provides direct care, assessment, and planning, implementation, and evaluation of all phases of the nursing continuum.
• Assistance with all personal care needs by home health aides.
• Access to an on-call nurse, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Short-term in-home continuous care when needed.
Emotional & Spiritual Support
Other team members of Hospice include social workers, chaplains, volunteers, and bereavement counselors that provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families.
These team members provide:
• Emotional support and spiritual guidance by chaplains, in accordance with the belief system and wishes of the patient and family.
• Social services and community resource referrals provided by medical social workers who evaluate the social and emotional factors that arise with particular the illness and then appropriately address them.
• Additional support and assistance by a wonderful group of volunteers who are specially trained to comfort and help hospice patients.
• Bereavement services, including individual and group grief counseling and year-long follow-up support and assistance in the form of personal calls, visits, written correspondence, and memorial services planning.
Palliative Care-Pain Control & Symptom Management
Our nurses are specially trained in symptom control and pain management, they are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our nurses work along side your physician(s) for optimum results. In order to achieve optimum results we use a variety of Meridian At Home services such as durable medical equipment, our pharmacy for medications, and our volunteers who are certified in Rekki and Pet therapy.
Where To Turn To For Assistance
To learn more about our many services and how we can customize them to meet your needs, please feel free to call a Meridian At Home advisor at 1-800-655-2555 or simply click on the "Connect with Meridian At Home" button. There you can enter your contact information. One of our advisors will be happy to provide you with personal assistance in arranging care at a convenient time.