HOME HEALTH / HOSPICE
Home Health
Receiving care at your home can add to your comfort during
recovery, ease the impact on friends and family, and help
you transition to lifestyle adjustments you may need to make
because of your illness.
Burgess Home Care:
- Hospital teaching, technology and care skills brought
to your home. Examples:
- I.V. medications
- Nourishment
- Wound care
- Hygiene and daily living assistance
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Assistance through social workers
- Medicare/Medicaid coverage
- Recognized by all health insurers
- Available 24 hours a day
- Staffed by professional, experienced health care employees.
Contact Home Health by telephone at 712-423-9265 or email
at sjohnston@burgesshc.org.
Hospice
Hospice at Burgess Health Center is a program, not a place.
Hospice brings together several services including professional
grief counselors and skilled volunteers. Their help typically
is available in the comfort of the patients' homes, but it
also can be arranged in the hospital, or at a nursing home.
The Hospice staff also provides relief to care givers who
desire a respite, and delivers bereavement support to families
during the first year of loss following the death of a loved
one.
Candidates for Hospice assistance are typically a person
with a life-limiting illness with short-term (less than six
month) survival estimate. Common examples of Hospice patients
are people with illnesses such as cancer, emphysema, and severe
heart disease.
Hospice participation is voluntary and may be ended at any
time by patients and their families.
If you wish to become a Hospital volunteer, please contact
us at 712-423-9324 or email at sjohnston@burgesshc.org.
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