Calvary Hospital Inc

Calvary hospital hospice is a medicare-certified hospital-based hospice program, which provides an interdisciplinary care team for patients with a terminal prognosis for all end-stage diseases. Calvary hospital hospice embraces and implements the basic assumptions of the hospice concept, including the following:- hospice provides palliative medical care, treating the physical, emotional and spiritual pain of the patient and family.- hospice treats the patient and loved ones together as a whole unit of care and offers bereavement counseling for surviving caregivers after the patient's death. - hospice patients remain in the familiar, comforting surroundings of home, whether it's a private residence, nursing home, hospital or an assisted living facility. - hospice care provides the following four levels of care: routine care, general inpatient care (if needed), continuous care (during a crisis), and respite care. Hospice services include:- nursing care, as necessary to maintain the patient at home - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on-call nurse physician services - medical social services- pastoral care- counseling services - nutritional counseling- short-term inpatient and respite care - medical supplies related to terminally ill - personal care provided by certified home health aides - therapies (e.g., physical, occupational and speech) - medications for symptom management and pain control related to the terminally ill- bereavement counseling for family members - volunteer services

Calvary's home health agency serves patients in the bronx, queens, northern manhattan, and southern westchester county. Calvary offers home care to patients with all diagnoses. Most patients return to pre-illness function and are discharged to self-care within six to eight weeks. All of our patients who we care for at home get the same level of high-quality and unique "calvary care" as all of our inpatients.the following services are available to patients and their families through calvary's certified home health agency: nursing services - our community health nurses provide nursing visits to patients in their homes. - specialized nursing is available such as enterostomal therapy. - 24-hour telephone access to rn (registered nurse) on-call home health aide- provides assistance with personal care and other activities related to health care.nutritional services - calvary's dietitians are available by phone to help in planning therapeutic nutritional management.therapy services - physical therapy- occupational therapy - speech therapymedical care - calvary home care staff will work closely with the patient's own physician to meet home health needs. - our staff has extensive knowledge of pain management. Medical social work a full range of social work services are available to help patients and families cope with the problems of illness. - assistance in medicaid application - assistance in long-term planningreferring patients - referrals may be made by patients family members, friends, hospitals, clinics, physicians, other health care professionals and community agencies. - part of the calvary continuum facilitate admission to inpatient care for symptom management - referral to outpatient and wound care clinics - provide information on calvary programs including bereavement support