Offers various educational formats to update and train hospice and palliative care professional, such as e-newsletter, databases, and training programs.

Provides physical care, emotional support and education to the patient who is terminally ill, and their family.

Provides home-based care to those patients suffering from acute or chronic pain with the focus is on the management of pain and other physiological, psychological, social and spiritual problems. Other specialized medical services consists of medical suergical care, advanced wound care, ostomy care and pallative care.

Provides inpatient nursing care for individuals requiring continuous care due to age, illness, injury, disability or post hospitalization. Also offers a special care unit geared towards those Alzheimer or dementia. Hospice and palliative care is also available for individuals who are dying or at end-stage of illness.

Offers hospice and palliative care, which encompasses a variety of care services nursing, social, pastoral, etc. to help each individual and their families

Provides hospice and pallative care services for patients who are dying or at the end-stage of their illness, including bereavement services for family and friends.

Focuses on the relief of symptoms and stress associated with serious illness, whatever the diagnosis, with the goal of improving quality of life for patients and their families. Palliative Care is appropriate at any point in an illness and can be provided along with other treatments. Home Connections services include: - Pain and symptom management - Education about the disease - Advice on living with serious, progressive illness - Development of care goals - Coping strategies to deal with treatment side effects - Help with coordinating patient care - Navigation of the medical system - Assistance with advance care planning Examples of illnesses and issues that palliative care has helped include: - Advanced heart disease, including congestive heart failure - Advanced lung disease, including COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and pulmonary fibrosis - Cancer, whether or not the patient is undergoing active treatment with radiation or chemotherapy - Serious progressive neurological diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s disease - Repeated hospitalizations or emergency department visits

Provides comprehensive home-based palliative care to children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. The program consists of specialty-trained professionals who collaborate with the child's medical team during their illness while providing expressive therapies for the patient and siblings, resources for community support systems, and both spiritual guidance and psycho-social support for family members during the span of illness and treatment.

Provides case management support and services to individuals with serious, chronic, and progressive illness. Services can improve the patient's quality of life through symptom management and through assistance in navigating the health care system. Support will help reduce the need for emergency room visits and hospitalizations, while keeping individuals comfortable in their home. Services from experts in the palliative care field provide relief from distressing symptoms and can also help patients deal with serious side effects of medical treatments. Services include open and supportive discussions about treatment choices and symptom management; coordination of care with all health care providers; emotional support for the patient and family; 24/7 telephone access to a registered nurse; social work visits to help complete advance directives and connect with community resources; spiritual care support; routine visits and regular phone contact to monitor the patient's condition and answer questions by the palliative care case manager.

Palliative Care is appropriate for the seriously ill, including children and those undergoing curative treatment. Palliative Care is provided where the patient lives with round-the-clock access to physician, social work, and spiritual care. Working as a team, the client's physicians and palliative care physician will create an individualized care plan that includes: - More timely comfort, pain, and symptom management - House calls and in-home visits by physicians and nurses - Patient-centered decisions and medical care - Coordinated care between primary and specialized physicians - Community linkages through social workers and chaplains

Provides hospice and palliative care for individuals with a serious illness. Also offers counseling, support groups, and individual bereavement services for family and friends. Serves patients in Westchester and Putnam in their home, hospital or nursing home.

Offers comfort care for people with terminal illness and support for their families at home, nursing home facilities, hospitals, Francis House, or assisted living facilities.

Consultation team works with people with life-threatening illnesses pursuing curative care or whose prognosis makes them ineligible for hospice. assesses the patient's situation assists with advance care planning recommends pain and symptom management to patient's caregiver and physician can suggest counseling for concerns about living with the illness

* Provides a skilled nursing facility that offers: Rehabilitation services. Long term care. Comfort care. Adult Respite care. Therapeutic recreational programs. Social work support.

Hospice care services include nursing, social work, medical consultation, home health aides, volunteers, spiritual care, 24 hour on-call nursing, oxygen, medical equipment, prescription medicine, physical therapy, nutritional counseling, palliative home care program, respite care, bereavement care and counseling, bereavement support groups for adults, teens and children.

Home-based care to people with AIDS in a variety of ways, including recuperative or hospice care, supportive housing and emergency assistance.Will work with individuals from Tompkins and Cortland Counties.

Hospice care services include nursing, social work, medical consultation, home health aides, volunteers, spiritual care, 24 hour on-call nursing, oxygen, medical equipment, prescription medicine, physical therapy, nutritional counseling, palliative home care program, respite care, bereavement care and counseling, bereavement support groups for adults, teens and children.

* Offers long term nursing home care.

• Skilled nursing
• Palliative care
• Respite care

Hospice care services include nursing, social work, medical consultation, home health aides, volunteers, spiritual care, 24 hour on-call nursing, oxygen, medical equipment, prescription medicine, physical therapy, nutritional counseling, palliative home care program, respite care, bereavement care and counseling, bereavement support groups for adults, teens and children.

Offers an alternative to a nursing home, hospital, or at-home care for terminally ill persons. Offers 10 beds in private rooms. Open to all regardless of religion, race or financial resources. Residents receive quality care in a home-like environment that includes: 24-hour care as an alternative to nursing home, hospital or at-home care Private bedrooms with cable TV and telephone Home-cooked meals Library and Chapel Open visiting hours for family and friends

Palliative Care is a recognized medical specialty which is designed to create a collaborative, holistic plan that includes the patient, the family and/or caregivers, and the involved providers, addresses the medical, psychosocial and and spiritual needs of a patient and family, provides an opportunity to discuss, review and document wishes in regards to future healthcare and life sustaining treatment decisions. It is designed to be offered to conjunction with curative treatment, ideally at the diagnosis of a chronic or life-limiting illness as a supportive means to ensure quality of life for both the patient and the family. When appropriate a transition to a plan for Hospice or Comfort Care can and will be supported.

* Provides specialized healthcare used to support the needs of individuals with a serious illness, regardless of diagnosis, prognosis or treatment.

Offering specialized care to help you and your family get through this difficult time, our integrigated team works with your own doctor to help relieve pain and stress, ease discomfort- and improve the quality of life-when you're facing an advanced illness .