When is the Right Time to Consider Hospice Care?

By Mercyhealth

Deciding when it’s time to consider hospice care isn’t always easy. That’s why it’s essential to choose a hospice team dedicated to providing compassionate care to keep you or a loved one comfortable through end-of-life transitions. When tomorrows aren’t promised, Mercyhealth’s Hospice team provides physical, emotional and spiritual support when it’s needed most.

Our expert hospice team offers specialized care that provides dignity, comfort, and respect during this significant time in one’s life.

Many hands are here to serve you

At Mercyhealth Hospice, we offer advance care planning, skilled nursing care, grief support, and unique services not offered by other local hospice providers.

“My goal is to make my patients and their loved ones as physically and emotionally comfortable with the process as possible. Nursing care at the end of life is just as crucial as at the start of life,” says Sara Parille, Mercyhealth’s Manager of Hospice and Palliative Care.

Advance care planning

Planning ahead helps you prepare for when you are no longer able to make your own decisions. Advance care planning ensures your health care wishes and preferences are met.

Mercyhealth’s certified advance care planning facilitators are specially trained to help you create a written health care plan. The goal is to help you understand your future health care options by separating common myths from facts, deciding what “quality of life” means to you by reflecting on your values, goals and religious values, knowing how to choose someone to make your health care decisions, and learning what actually happens when you cannot make your own decisions any longer.

We understand you will have questions and may need help deciding when is the right time to consider hospice care. To learn more about Mercyhealth Hospice, call (608) 754-2201, or visit mercyhealthsystem.org.