Sumner Hospice Mission
The mission of Sumner Hospice is to provide physical, emotional, social and spiritual support to terminally ill patients, as well as their families and loved ones, while assisting patients and families to live with dignity and comfort as they cope with end of life issues.
We believe:
- Hospice affirms life
- Hospice recognizes dying as a process and so our care provides comfort rather than cure
- Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death
- Hospice provides physical, emotional and spiritual care to terminally ill persons and their families
- Hospice helps the terminally ill person maintain quality of life and helps family members through an extremely stressful time in their lives
Hospice is primarily a home care program, but services may also be provided in a hospital or nursing home. A hospice team helps the patient and family make informed decisions about caregiving, teaches the necessary skills for “hands-on” care and helps with the approaching and actual death. Hospice also offers help through the bereavement period.
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