What is Hospice?
Hospice is not a place. Hospice is a special care for special people who have life-limited illnesses. It is a concept of care that treats the person, not the disease, and emphasizes quality of life, not the duration. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones the end of life. It is more than a health care service as it attends to the emotional, practical and spiritual concerns of the patient and the family in the familiar surroundings of home or a homelike setting. Hospice care works because it puts people first. Hospice care is a patient/family focused, cost effective way of caring for terminally ill patients when curing the patient is no longer possible.

Grace Hospice offers care to all terminally ill patients and support to those patients and their families without regard for diagnosis, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, race, creed, disability, age, place of residence or ability to pay.

Hospice Admission Criteria

• There is a diagnosis of a terminal illness with a prognosis of approximately six months or less.
• A primary caregiver is living at home with the patient or the patient's home is in a health care facility.