Lewis County Hospice recognizes the needs of the “whole” person. It promotes quality of life through holistic comfort care for the terminally ill and their loved ones. That approach provides for the physical, social and spiritual dimensions of care and support.

Services include pain and symptom management; instruction in and guidance in the care of the patient; emotional, psychosocial and spiritual support; medications, nursing supplies and durable medical equipment related to the patient’s terminal illness; and hospitalization, if medically necessary, for symptom management.

Programs that provide equipment that is used to clean the blood of patients in whom one or both kidneys are defective or absent, and to remove excess accumulation of drugs or chemicals in the blood.

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Programs that provide equipment that is used to clean the blood of patients in whom one or both kidneys are defective or absent, and to remove excess accumulation of drugs or chemicals in the blood.

Mercy House of the Southern Tier runs a home for the terminally ill. It provides a supportive, loving, residential environment for terminally-ill people who can no longer stay at home. Palliative Care. Provides care when a cure is no longer possible, with a focus on comfort, dignity, and pain control. 24-hour hospice care as an alternative to nursing homes, hospital, or in-home care. Community care shelter for terminally ill people who can no longer live at home.

The Jewish Senior Life Physician House Calls Program offers patients: In-home primary care and assessments of medical problems In-home acute appointments for urgent, non-emergency care for patients of the practice Coordination of care with other home health care services One-on-one visits with the physician Review of medications and methods of taking them Assessments of abilities to perform daily activities, such as dressing, bathing, walking and eating Assistance in developing a plan of care in the event that the patient's health worsens.

Any person with terminal illness is eligible to apply with a physician acknowledgement that length of remaining life is approximately less than six months. Services offered are a "Team Approach" to a palliative care; medical direction, nursing, psycho-social, bereavement, and volunteer services. A brochure is available.

Programs that provide equipment that is used to clean the blood of patients in whom one or both kidneys are defective or absent, and to remove excess accumulation of drugs or chemicals in the blood.

Programs that provide equipment that is used to clean the blood of patients in whom one or both kidneys are defective or absent, and to remove excess accumulation of drugs or chemicals in the blood.