Advantages of Hospice:
- offers comfort care, not curative treatment
- treats the person, not the disease
- emphasizes quality, rather than length of life
- considers the family and the patient as the “unit of care”
- offers help and support to the patient and family 24 hours per day, 7 days a week
- follows the families for 13 months after the patient’s death
Home Care at St. Alexius is State licensed and certified by Medicare and is accredited by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). For more information, call 1-701-530-4500 or 1-800-223-1977.