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Mission
Statement
Mountain Valley Hospice seeks to
make hospice care available to all appropriate patients and families in the
geographic service area regardless of race, creed, gender, or ability to pay. In
providing care to persons with a limited life expectancy, hospice neither
attempts to prolong life nor to hasten death. The goal of hospice care is to
alleviate symptoms - physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, social-enabling
the patient and family to concentrate on living. The focus on patient perceived
needs allows control to remain with the patient. Mountain Valley Hospice
provides care that is palliative, holistic, and supportive.
Why
Hospice For Your Patient?
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Hospice
treats the person, not the disease. Hospice professionals and
volunteers address the medical, social, psychological, and
spiritual needs of the patient and family. |
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Hospice
considers the patient and family, the "unit of care."
Patients and families are included in the decision-making
process, and bereavement counseling is provided to the family
for one year following the death of their loved one. |
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Hospice
offers palliative, rather than curative treatment. Sophisticated
methods of pain and symptom control enable the patient to live
life as fully and comfortably as possible. |
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Hospice
emphasizes quality, rather than length of life. Hospice neither
hastens nor postpones death: it affirms life and regards dying
as a normal process. |
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Hospice
is a covered benefit under Medicare, Medicaid, and most private
insurance plans. |
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Mountain
Valley Hospice offers care to residents in Fulton County,
western Montgomery County, southern Hamilton County, and
northwest Saratoga County. |
Mountain
Valley Hospice is a not-for-profit, Medicare-certified, home care agency
providing care for terminally ill patients in Fulton, Montgomery, Hamilton
and Saratoga Counties. |
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If
life's meaning is to be discovered, it is intrinsic in each stage as we assume
the challenge of actualizing every moment of every day as
we live it.
Because I am the only person I will have a relationship with all my
life,
I choose:
To
love myself the way
I am now
To
always acknowledge that I am enough just the way I am
To
love, honor and cherish myself
To
be my own best friend
To
be the person I would like to spend the rest of my life with
To
always take care of
myself so that I can take
care of others
To
always grow, develop and share my love and life.
There's
absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush.
Everybody
should go
very slow.
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for,
is for something to
occur to you.
-
Robert Frost
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