Hospice Program

You, your family, and your doctor decide together when hospice services should begin.  Hospice care is appropriate when the focus of your medical treatment is no longer toward finding a cure, but toward improving quality of life.  Entering hospice care does not mean there is no longer any hope.  If your condition improves, or the disease goes into remission, you can easily leave the hospice program and return to active medical or cancer treatment.  Hospice recognizes death as the final stage of life, and seeks to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life, and to manage other symptoms, so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones.