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Comprehensive Support

Connecticut Hospice provides comprehensive, coordinated palliative and hospice care without gaps or duplication.

Patient and Family-Centered Care

We consider our patients and their families to be “one unit of focus” and understand that every patient and family is unique with special needs and wishes.

We listen, offer choices, and actively engage patients and families in the decision-making process as we develop a customized plan of care.

We encourage questions about the illness, its progress, and treatment, and help families understand patient condition changes.

A Team Approach

Our comprehensive approach to hospice and palliative care is delivered by a medically directed, nurse-coordinated, interdisciplinary team, which consists of hospice and palliative board-certified physicians, nurses and pharmacists.

To meet the unique needs of each patient and family unit, we offer hospice and palliative care at home, as well as hospice or palliative care in our waterfront inpatient hospital.

Teams consist of:
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Social Workers
  • Spiritual and Pastoral Care Providers
  • Supplies
  • Art and Music Therapists
  • Dieticians
  • Artists
  • Musicians
  • Trained Volunteers
  • Art and Music Therapists
  • Dieticians
  • Artists
  • Musicians
  • Trained Volunteers
A nurse comforts a little girl beside the sickbed of a hospice patient

Flexible, Customized Plans-of-Care

We engage and empower patients and families as we develop customized plans that respond to each patient’s particular needs. Flexible care options enable our patients to move back and forth between our home care and our inpatient services over the course of their illness. 

We encourage questions about the illness, its progress, and treatment, and help families and patients alike to understand the process of palliative and end-of-life care.

When and Where You Need It

Our flexible approach helps patients and their families choose the location of care that will best support their medical condition and quality of life.
Our customized plans-of-care offer:
  • Expert medical care
  • Comprehensive pain management
  • Emotional and spiritual support
  • Expressive arts
  • Social work and counseling
  • Dietary consultation
  • Family services
  • Respite care
  • Bereavement counseling
  • Flexible care options
  • And more
  • Family services
  • Respite care
  • Bereavement counseling
  • Flexible care options
  • And more...

Respite Care

We offer short-term 24/7 respite care for up to five (5) days in our in-patient facility. Respite care provides temporary relief to caregivers, helping to ease the burden for families and caregivers, many of whom experience periods of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion while caring for loved ones.

Bereavement Program

We offer bereavement support groups, education, bereavement mailings throughout the year, assessment, brief counseling, community referrals, phone support and an Annual Memorial Service.

Prayer Hands

Pastoral & Spiritual Care

We help connect people with their faith, regardless of what it is, calling on spiritual leaders from Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism, and other religions to offer patients and families the support they need on their journey.

Arts Program

Unique to Connecticut Hospice, we view the arts as an important component of care. Our art and music therapists and other expressive artists, writers and complementary therapists engage patients and families in individual and group activities that promote creative fulfillment and quality of life.

Please Support Us

As a not-for-profit, we depend on generous donors to help us provide customized services and therapies that aren’t completely covered by Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance. 

Please make a gift to help us sustain the highest standard of care.

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Contact Admissions

Admissions may be scheduled seven days a week.
Call our Centralized Intake Department: (203) 315-7540.

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