hospice

The Graham County Hospital offers a Hospice program for the terminally ill.  Hospice offers palliative (comfort), rather than curative, treatment.  Under the direction of a physician, hospice uses sophisticated methods of pain and symptom control that enables the patient to live as fully and comfortable as possible.  Hospice treats the person, not the disease.  The interdisciplinary hospice team is made up of professionals who address the medical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.  It emphasizes quality, rather than length of life.  Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death: it affirms life and regards dying as a normal process.  Patients and families are included in the decision-making process, and bereavement counseling is provided to the family after the death of their loved one.  Hospice offers help and support to the family on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis.