Adult Day Health- Ambulatory Treatment Unit
- Behavioral Health
- Boutique
- Breast Health
- Cancer Center
- Children's Therapy Unit
- Community Programs
- Diabetes Care
- Emergency and Urgent Care
- Employee Assistance
Program - Facial Plastic Surgery
- Family Birth Centers
- Good Samaritan Healthcare
Resource Center - Heart Care
- Home Health
- Hospice and Palliative
Care - Laboratories Northwest
- Medical Imaging
- Mobile Health Services
- MultiCare Center For
Healthy Living - MultiCare HealthWorks
- Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit - Orthopedics
- Neurosciences
- Pain Management
- Primary Care Clinics
- Rehabilitation
- Robotic Technology
- Senior Services
- Spa
- Sports Medicine
- Surgical Services
- Tobacco Cessation
- Transfusion Free Medical
and Surgical Program - Urology
- Vein Therapy
Hospice and Palliative Care
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.
For more information:
Good Samaritan Hospice
253-697-7600
MultiCare Hospice and Palliative Care Services
253-459-8370 or 1-800-527-2069
hospiceinfo@multicare.org
Good Samaritan Hospice and MultiCare Hospice and Palliative Care Services 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.