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 physical, emotional, and spiritual care to persons with advanced illnesses and their families throughout Chenango County. Care available 24 hrs/7 days/week regardless of ability to pay.

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

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 comprehensive home care services for individuals who need short term care or those with chronic illness or disability requiring long term care. Services include home nursing, home health aides, physical, occupational, speech therapies, nutrition, IV therapy, wound care, AIDS/HIV teams, palliative care, tele-medicine, and more.

Provides inpatient cancer care including diagnostics, chemotherapy/biotherapy, infusion therapy, radium implant therapy, surgical care, palliative and Hospice care, and patient and family education.

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.

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.

Offers comprehensive home care services for individuals who need short term care or those with chronic illness or disability requiring long term care. Services include home nursing, home health aides, physical, occupational, speech therapies, nutrition, IV therapy, wound care, AIDS/HIV teams, palliative care, tele-medicine, and more.

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

Provides hospice care and bereavement counseling.

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 hospice, and palliative care to increase quality of life for individuals with a chronic or terminal diagnosis and their families in a variety of settings including homes, nursing homes, hospitals and the Siegenthaler Center 4 bed residence.

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.

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

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.

Provides long and short term inpatient nursing care, including extensive rehabilitation services and specialized treatment programs for those requiring continuous care due to age, illness, injury, disability or post hospitalization. Includes enhanced Alzheimer’s care as well as subacute, EksoNR (neurorehab exoskeleton) and orthopedic rehab.

Offers nursing care for those with terminal cancer and have no resources to pay for health care services. Also provides palliative care for those who are dying or at the end-stage of their cancer.

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.

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 .

Provides short-term rehabilitation, long-term nursing care, medical and post surgical sub-acute care, ventilator and respiratory care, memory care unit and palliative and hospice care.

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.