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Reasons To Choose Hospice & Palliative Care Of Northeastern Illinois
Choosing the right hospice provider for you or your loved one is one of the most important decisions you will ever have to make. We want you to be an informed consumer and help you make the decision that’s right for you. Choose Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois (HPNI) because:
- Quality Hospice Care: 99 percent of physicians who refer patients to us, and 100 percent of referring hospitals, rate the quality of our services as very good and excellent. In fact, 96 percent of family members tell us they recommend our agency to others.
- Hospice Experts In Northern Illinois: We have 29 years of experience in delivering quality end-of-life care to residents of 10 counties: McHenry, Lake, DuPage, Kane, Boone, Will,Winnebago, DeKalb, Kendall and northern Cook.
- We Care For The Total Person: HPNI has a commitment to caring for each patient’s body, mind, and spirit. In addition to high-quality nursing care and pain management, HPNI’s services include massage, art, pet and music therapies; spiritual care and grief support; case management, and palliative care.
- Caring For Children: Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois is recognized for its best practice in pediatric hospice and palliative care. HPNI has partnered with Lutheran General Hospital and Children’s Memorial Hospital to bring our specialized care to children.
- Independent: Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois is one of the region’s largest independent not-for-profit hospice and palliative care providers with nearly 200 employees.
- Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois provides four levels of care to our patients:
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- Routine Care Care provided in the comfort and security of your home, wherever you call home – private residence, assisted living facility, or skilled nursing facility. A hospice nurse will work with a patient’s primary physician to bring the appropriate hospice services to you. Members of your hospice team will educate caregivers to help them feel comfortable performing routine care activities.
- Respite Care Short term care, to support your family or caregivers while continuing to meet your care needs. Care is provided in a skilled nursing facility short term.
- General Inpatient Care Care provided for a short-term stay in one of HPNI’s inpatient units in Barrington or Woodstock, when 24-hour skilled nursing care is necessary to help manage symptoms that require constant intervention.
- Continuous Care Care provided for short periods in your home (i.e., private residence, assisted living community, or long term-care community) to provide acute level of care for pain or symptom crisis.
- Grief Support: Our Center for Care offers one of the largest and most comprehensive hospice grief support programs in the State of Illinois, including individual and group counseling, workshops and ongoing support. Our services are offered to families of our hospice patients as well as to the general public.
- Accessible: We are here 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Just call 224-770-2489.
- Not-for-profit: Not-for-profit does not mean unsuccessful. It means we are not focused on profits, but rather on delivering quality care and support to all hospice and palliative care patients who are referred to us, regardless of their ability to pay.
- Palliative Care: If a loved one has a serious illness and needs relief from pain or uncontrolled symptoms, our palliative team can help. Palliative care is appropriate for people of any age and at any point in an illness, and can be delivered along with curative treatments.
