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Dear Healthcare Providers and Community Partners, We at Namaste Home Health and Hospice want to update you on our COVID-19 practices so that you have peace of mind as you continue to collaborate with us to provide life changing care. We know you share our concerns about this issue and want to assure you that…
10 Facts about Hospice and Palliative Care
Hospice isn’t a place, nor is the care just about those who are dying. Hospice is a comprehensive kind of care that focuses on living — it’s about living as fully as possible, surrounded by family and friends, up until the end of life. Palliative care brings this special philosophy of care to people earlier in…
Palliative Care (CaringInfo.org)
How Can Palliative Care Help? You may have heard of a new medical term – palliative care (pronounced PAH-LEE-UH-TIVE). For the last thirty years, palliative care has been provided by hospice programs. Now this very same approach to care is being used by other healthcare providers, including teams in hospitals, nursing facilities and home health…
Our Hospice Philosophy
Namaste Hospice believes that choice always exists. Excellent quality of life is always attainable — people with illness can live fully and die well. When death is accepted as a natural part of life, hope changes but does not disappear. A person faced with serious, life limiting or terminal illness need not stop reaching for…
The Story of Namaste Hospice
Namaste Hospice was founded in 1998 by a group of seasoned hospice professionals with a combined 40 years of experience in Hospice. The vision of Namaste Hospice came from a belief that flaws existed in the current delivery of hospice care. Lengths of stay in hospice were decreasing. Families frequently wished they had known about…