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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.

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 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.

Provides care and support to terminally ill individuals and their families in the home, assisted living facilities, and long-term care facilities.

Hospice services provide compassionate care for individuals facing a terminal illness, focusing on enhancing quality of life rather than curing the disease.

Services include pain management, symptom relief, emotional and psychological support, and spiritual care for both the patient and their family.

Hospice care is delivered by a team of healthcare professionals (such as doctors, nurses, social workers, and chaplains) who work together to provide comfort and support.

Hospice care can take place in the patient’s home, in a hospice facility, or in a hospital or nursing home, with the goal of ensuring dignity, peace, and comfort during the end-of-life journey.

Provides physical, emotional and spiritual care for seriously-ill individuals, their families, and their caregivers. Also offer emotional and spiritual support to the patient and their loved ones. Individualized, person-centered care is provided by an interdisciplinary team that consists of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, counselors, therapists, and certified nursing assistants. On-call nurses are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to answer questions, address needs or concerns, and make home visits. To further support patients and families, Hospice volunteers are available for periodic caregiver respite and companionship. Hospice of Dubuque ensures that patients receive the necessary and appropriate medications, equipment, supplies, and interventions.

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 hospice services to people with terminal illness and their families to help maintain the best quality of life possible. Hospice care is provided wherever the person resides, whether it is in their own home, a long-term care facility or the hospital. Patients routinely receive in-home services from an interdisciplinary hospice team including a medical director, nurses, homemaker/health aides, social workers, spiritual advisors, pharmacists, and volunteers. Nursing home residents may receive hospice care as well. The team will work individually with dying person and family members to meet whatever needs arise. Hospice Care provides continued support before and after death (bereavement support for family members).

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 care to terminally ill patients in their home, hospital, or nursing home (whichever is the most appropriate setting). With an emphasis on comfort and quality of life, a team of physicians, nurses, therapists, bereavement counselors, pharmacists, personal care assistants, volunteers, social services, and clergy provide clinical, spiritual, and emotional care to patients and their families experiencing a life-limited illness

Provides end-of-life care for patients and support for their family members and caregivers. Care emphasis on pain and symptom management.

Home health care and hospice services.

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.

Services include:

- Child health services

- Maternal health services

- Home health care and homemaker services

- Hospice care

- Cancer screening for women

- Health education, community education, and health planning

- Immunization clinics for children and adults

- Family planning services

- Blood pressure checks

- Disaster planning and preparedness

- Tobacco cessation classes

- Parent education classes

- Home visits for children ages 0-5

- Life Assist Emergency Response Alert

- Public health nursing visits

Provides support and care for persons in the last phases of a life-limiting illness so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.

Hospice exists in the belief that through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring community, patients and families/caregivers will be free to attain a degree of mental preparation for death that is satisfying to them.

Provides end of life care. Also offers hospice house which has 6 beds. Please call for availability.