Hospice is a philosophy of care that emphasizes comfort and dignity for terminally ill patients and their families.
Based on the belief that dying is a natural part of life, hospice care helps people:
- live with greater comfort and dignity as they near the end of life
- find peace and hope even as they face a life-limiting illness and bereavement
- die in the place of their choice
- die with their pain managed.
Hospice care focuses on:
- enabling patients to stay at home supported by their loved ones
- caring for the whole person — body, mind, and spirit
- neither hastening nor extending a person’s natural dying process.
Our Approach
At NHH, we care for the whole person.
We attend to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our patients and their families, always honoring that they are coping with so much more than simply the physical symptoms of a disease.
Since patients’ conditions and family situations change rapidly at the end of life, we remain highly responsive to the particular needs of each family hour by hour.
We provide compassionate, individualized, and flexible care.
Our interdisciplinary staff works closely with each patient’s loved ones, doctors, and other members of his or her support network. We enter each patient’s home respectful of the family’s situation and choices.