Where Can Hospice Services Be Provided


When patients are facing a life-limiting illness, our caregivers provide pain relief, physical comfort, and emotional support. Our nurses, social workers, home health aides, chaplains, volunteers, and bereavement counselors understand the complex needs of patients and their families, and ensure their privacy, respect and dignity.

Meridian At Home Hospice can provide any or all of the services and provisions listed below as desired and as applicable:


  • Attendance by qualified and caring staff members who are all highly sensitive to and fully equipped to meet the specific needs of hospice patients.
  • Arrangement and delivery of all medical equipment, supplies, and medications related to the terminal illness.
  • Education about the illness, about what to expect as the disease progresses and how to cope with each phase.
  • Instruction to family members on how to help care for their loved one.
  • Regularly scheduled visits by a registered nurse who provides direct care, assessment, and planning, implementation, and evaluation of all phases of the nursing continuum.
  • Assistance with all personal care needs by home health aides.
  • Emotional support and spiritual guidance by chaplains, in accordance with the belief system and wishes of the patient and family.
  • Social services and community resource referrals provided by medical social workers who evaluate the social and emotional factors that arise with particular the illness and then appropriately address them.
  • Additional support and assistance by a wonderful group of volunteers who are specially trained to comfort and help hospice patients.
  • Access to an on-call nurse, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Short-term in-home continuous care when needed.
  • Bereavement services, including individual and group grief counseling and year-long follow-up support and assistance in the form of personal calls, visits, written correspondence, and memorial services planning.

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