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National consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life.

Free brochures and web information on a wide range of end-of-life topics, including advance care planning, caregiving, hospice and palliative care, grief and loss, and pain.

Referrals to local hospice providers.

Hospice program provides support and care for persons with an advanced illness and with limited time to live. The goal is to provide comfort and minimize pain and stress for the terminally ill and their loved ones. Hospice care is designed to help the individual remain in the home, stay as active as possible, express and accept their feelings, ease pain, control symptoms, help the family care for their loved one at home, and manage practical tasks (i.e., running errands, preparing meals, getting medications, supplies, and equipment).

Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House provides a comfortable environment for those who have an end-stage terminal illness with a limited prognosis and who are not seeking active treatment for cure; provides pain and symptom management, respite care, and routine care for patients and their family or significant other.

Provides home care and palliative services to those with an end-of-life illness, grief support programs, and counseling. 

Provides medical care to patients in the end stage of a terminal diagnosis.

Hospice care includes:

- Medications to help manage symptoms and for comfort.

- Equipment such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, shower chairs, canes, etc.

- Supplies such as linens, gloves, dressings, catheters, gowns, incontinent supplies.

- Visits by a Registered Nurse to assess and manage symptoms.

- Visits by a Home Health Aide to provide personal care, such as bathing, hair care, massage, and range of motion exercise.

- Oversight by physician.

Provides trained volunteers, as well as, counseling, 24 hour on call nursing, social services, chaplains, and personal care professionals to help provide care for a terminally ill person in their home during the last 6 months of the patient's life. Coordination of needed home health care services including: pharmacy, dietary, physical, respiratory, speech, and occupational therapies, and the needed home medical equipment. Inpatient hospice care available at several area nursing homes and hospitals.

Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.

Provides home care and palliative services to those with an end-of-life illness, grief support programs, and counseling. 

Home health care and hospice services.

Offers to help patients and their loved ones to prepare a personal, comprehensive plan of care that meets needs and helps to reach end of life goals. Offers bereavement, grief/grieving support groups.

Provides quality end-of-life services for the increasing number of terminally ill offenders in the Iowa Department of Corrections. The program provides comfort oriented care and spiritual, emotional, physical and psychological support to terminally offenders and allows them to die with dignity and humanity, in as little pain as possible, and in a hospice setting rather than alone in a cell, infirmary bed, or hospital room.

Provides compassionate end-of-life care to community members wherever they call home, supporting patients and families in homes, assisted or independent living communities, nursing homes, hospitals, or a loved one’s residence.