Most people do not want to die in pain or alone in a hospital, hooked up to a machine and cut off from their family/friends and everything that is familiar. They would prefer to be at home…alert and free of pain…among the people and things they love. Hospice is dedicated to making this happen.

Even though over 90% of hospice care is provided in the patient’s home, hospice’s humane and compassionate care can also be implemented in a nursing home, assisted living facility and adult family home.

Lower Valley Hospice and Palliative Care provides a wide spectrum of compassionate services to help patients and their families cope with a terminal illness and death. The goal of hospice is to manage pain and other symptoms, enabling patients to spend their last days in dignity. Hospice accomplishes this goal by providing an array of medical, social work and spiritual services with the cooperation of both healthcare professional and trained volunteers.

These services include:

• Physician Care
• Medications
• Medical Equipment
• Supplies
• Skilled Nursing
• Pain Management
• Personal Care
• Social work and chaplain services
• Bereavement services for the family for a year after the death

Hospice staff and volunteers help patients, their families and friends to focus on what is most important to them — allowing people to spend time together, share memories, say goodbyes, find peace or care for one another.
This time is often difficult yet many families report that hospice helped them care for their loved one and find meaning and even joy in the last days of their life. Most hospice patients have a life expectancy of six months or less.
Historically, most hospice patients have been elderly people suffering with cancer. However, hospice services are available for patients of all ages and with other illnesses such as end-stage heart, lung, renal and neurological, and AIDS disorders.

A referral to any of our programs can be made by anyone, including family members, friends or health care professionals. Please call 509-837-1676, and a member of the team will contact you as soon as possible.