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Hospice relies
on volunteers
To help patients with limited life expectancies live pain-free with independence and dignity at home while supporting the patient and family as the unit of care through interdisciplinary care, Hospice of the Rapidan’s mission is a road map to follow in making organizational decisions and caring for clients.
“Health care is coming home where it belongs,” says Tina H. Weaver, executive director. “In Great Britain and Scandinavia virtually everything is now done at home. In my four years with Hospice, many aspects including pain control and death have returned to the home from an institutional setting.”
In 1991, Hospice has provided case management for 68 patients and their families through an interdisciplinary team comprised of doctors, nurses, therapists, volunteers, social workers, patients and their families who sit down together and determine a plan of treatment that is executed by Hospice.
“The Hospice patient has both the right and ability to make choices about treatment and desired outcomes,” says Jackie Kish, Director of Nursing. “Some patients weigh side effects of cancer treatment against benefits and determine that quality of life rather than quantity is their preference.”
People used to live close to their families. Sons and daughters took
93.1%