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Jean Falk Morgan, Executive Director of the Hospice of the Rapidan, said, “In the traditional hospital setting, patients who have been diagnosed as having a limited amount of time left are often viewed as medical failures and can be treated as such.” The Hospice of the Rapidan provides many benefits that traditional health care setting do not. Its emphasis is on life and living and concentrates on the total care of the patient; it is not an effort to cure him or her.
Hospice treats the patients as a whole, tending not only to the physical needs, but the intellectual, spiritual, emotional and social needs as well.
The patient and family, along with the patient’s physician, are viewed as the team leaders and as such, are directly involved in the decision making process. In this way, control is given back to the families and the patient, which strengthens them and better prepares them to deal with the many choices they must make at this time.
“Many people have the false notion that Hospice services are a ’last resort’ when there is no more hope”, said Dianne Banker, Director of Nursing for the Hospice of the Rapidan.
“That’s simply not true. We offer a lot of hope. Hospice deals with living. The quality of life is vastly improved by our program. We enable the patient and the family to take back control at a time when some feel helpless by the events taking place.”
Hospice does not attempt to change the life threatening circumstances, but to provide the support and nurturing needed to help the patient continue to live life as fully as possible.
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