Mission Statement
Hospice of the Calumet Area, a not for profit organization, is dedicated to improving the quality of life through compassionate care for individuals and families facing an end-of-life illness.
Philosophy
Hospice provides support and care for persons in the last phases of an incurable disease so that they may live as fully and as comfortably as possible. Hospice recognizes that the dying process is a part of the normal process of living and focuses on enhancing the quality of remaining life. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice exists in the hope and belief that through appropriate care, and the promotion of a caring community sensitive to their needs that individuals and their families may be free to attain a degree of satisfaction in preparation for death. Hospice recognizes that human growth and development can be a lifelong process. Hospice seeks to preserve and promote the inherent potential for growth within individuals and families during the last phase of life. Hospice offers palliative care for all individuals and their families without regard to age, gender, nationality, race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, diagnosis, availability of a primary caregiver, or ability to pay.
Hospice programs provide state-of-the-art palliative care and supportive services to individuals at the end of their lives, their family members and significant others, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in both the home and facility-based care settings. Physical, social, spiritual, and emotional care are provided by a clinically-directed interdisciplinary team consisting of patients and their families, professionals, and volunteers during the:
* Last stages of an illness;
* Dying process; and
* Bereavement period.
Purpose
The purpose of Hospice of the Calumet Area, Inc. is to provide a coordinated program of home and inpatient care providing palliative and supportive medical, health and counseling services to terminally ill patients and their families through an interdisciplinary team of professionals and volunteers. The program provides care to meet the physical, psychological, social, spiritual and other special needs experienced during the final stages of illness, dying and bereavement. The agency will not conduct research or experimental studies.
