http://hospiceoforange.com/clinical-care/
The hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties offers care to patients in home, hospital, adult care facility, or hospice care to help alleviate pain and suffering for the terminally ill. The non-profit programs offers pain management available 24 hours a day from home health nurses through a variety of therapies and medications which can be tailored to the patient's needs including massage therapy, reiki, music therapy, aromatherapy, and pet therapy. They also offer a number of other programs to help support the families and the patient.
I think this program is invaluable to the people of Sullivan and Orange Counties because it offers patients the ability to receive care while in the comfort of their own home with their families rather than in the hospital. Additionally, the breadth of the services offered seem like they could really help to alleviate some of the suffering these patients could be going through. This patient centered approach is an idea that can hopefully be implemented in the majority of the country. By doing so, I believe patient satisfaction would increase while at the same time the cost of providing healthcare would go down. In the future, I can see myself seeking out these opportunities for my patients to have convenient access to health care with an emphasis on the patient.
