It’s Never Too Early To Learn About Hospice Care

The sooner you call us, the sooner we can help you and your family.

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Experience The Benefits Of Hospice.

Our hospice care is centered on the entire family. We provide a team that focuses on individual care while offering your family all the support and help that’s needed. By bringing the care to you, patients and families can focus on being together.

We believe every person should be treated with compassionate and individualized support. Which is why we listen closely, understanding your needs upfront to allow for a holistic approach to care, including clinical, emotional, and spiritual support that is tailored to you and your family.

Services

Help for Family Caregivers

Our hospice professionals know that serious illness affects the whole family, and we’re here to help you focus on the things that matter most.
Pain Management

One of the main aspects of hospice is pain management. For many, as a disease progresses the symptoms and pain levels of the disease changes.
Medication and Supplies

One of the many benefits of Hospice is that the VNA will be able to provide your loved one supplies that are related to the illness.
Music Therapy

Using music to achieve non-musical goals, music therapy is an effective intervention that meets the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of patients and their families.
Bereavement Services

You and your loved ones will probably go through a wide range of feelings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve.
Spiritual Support

VNA Hospice’s non-denominational chaplains work with patients and families who choose to include spiritual care in their hospice plan to help them discover the resources.
Alternative Therapy

VNA Hospice understands that response to treatment or therapy is individual and that what works for some might not be as effective for others.
VNA Hospice House

A unique blend of beauty and function, the VNA Hospice House was built to serve as a home-like haven for residents and their families. The 11,000 square-foot building has twelve private bedrooms.
We Honor Veterans

As a partner of We Honor Veterans, VNA provides unique services to our nation’s veterans facing a life-limiting illness. Honoring them through a special pinning ceremony is one way we show our gratitude to those who have served.

How to Start Hospice Care

Anyone can refer a patient for hospice care, including a doctor, family member, or the person who is ill. It's best to contact us early in a serious illness, even if you're not sure if hospice is appropriate right now...

What People Are Saying About Hospice

- When Barbara looks back on the time when Harvey, her husband of 64 ½ years, was being cared for by VNA Hospice, one thing stands out: their music therapy sessions with music therapist, Moreen Burkart. “Moreen gave us something to look forward to.”
  
  Barbara Ellison
- “I felt like your staff knew that we as a family were also the patients. They were as caring and nurturing to me and my kids as they were to my mother.”
  
  Debra Columbo
- “The VNA counselors treat you like family. If they see you’re upset, they’ll give you a hug. That doesn’t sounds like a big thing – it is a big thing.”
  
  Dennis Heaney
  
  Hospice Bereavement Support
- "Patients do better when they get hospice care earlier, and more people are receiving hospice care because more patients, physicians, and family members realize its value."
  
  Dr. Melissa Dean
  
  MD
- "The Hospice nurses really kept us together. The important thing that I have learned, we probably would have called Hospice in even earlier."
  
  Cindy Bryant
  
  Local radio personality
- At the VNA Hospice House, Annie could stay comfortably every night and Paul was never alone. Even, when he passed, Paul was surrounded by loved ones, including, a VNA music therapist singing “Ave Maria.”
  
  Annie Conti