Hospice Services
What Is Hospice?
The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of life for patients and their families by addressing their physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs.
Hospice care provided by Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois is quality, compassionate, patient-centered comfort and support given to patients with advanced illnesses and their families. Hospice is not a place; it is a program that provides specialized end-of-life care. Since 1982, the professional staff of Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois (HPNI) has been a resource that patients in northern Illinois could turn to at times of serious illness.
In addition to providing help with personal care needs, hospice care focuses on:
- Educating and supporting patients and their family members on care, disease progression and treatment.
- Placing a priority on managing pain, easing suffering and promoting maximum comfort.
- Assisting with advance care plans when needed, and supporting choices and goals in advanced illness.
HPNI provides hospice services in the comfort of the patient’s own home. While the majority of our patients live in their own house, some live with family members, or reside in an assisted living residence, nursing home or senior residence. Hospice care can even be provided in a hospital setting.
The hospice care team partners with the patient to develop a care plan based on the entire family’s needs and to provide a circle of care around the patient. That care plan strives to achieve maximum relief from pain and other symptoms that restrict life activities for the patient; guides the patient and family to be independent and confident to manage changes in the patient’s condition; provides direct care and resources so the entire family lives each day as fully possible.
