Home Health and Hospice
Hospice provides support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and as comfortably as possible. The focus is on caring, not curing.
Our team of professionals and volunteers provide expert pain and symptom management, psychosocial and spiritual support for our patients and their families. In most cases, care is provided in the patient's home. Hospice care is provided anywhere a person calls home, it may be an assisted living facility, an adult family home, a skilled nursing facility, etc.
Do people worry about giving up hope if they sign on for hospice care?
People often are uncomfortable discussing hospice care. This is, in part, due to the misconception that the patient is giving up hope when they sign on for hospice care. This is most definitely not the case. Rather, hospice can add a new dimension to the end-of-life journey by giving the patient comfort care. Patients can choose to discontinue hospice care at any time. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death.
MultiCare•Good Samaritan Home Health and Hospice is a non-profit, Medicare-certified and JCAHO-accredited home care program serving Pierce County since 1977.
Hospice offers hospice and palliative care to terminally ill people and their families without regard for age, gender, nationality, race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, availability of a primary caregiver, or ability to pay.
Contact Us
MultiCare•Good Samaritan Home Health and Hospice
253-301-6400 or 888-516-4504
253-301-6528 Fax
Address -
3901 S Fife St.
Tacoma, WA 98409
Mailing Address -
PO Box 5200
MS:3901-1-HH
Tacoma, WA 98415-0200
hospiceinfo@multicare.org