What to expect for your hospice care at home, what services are covered by Medicare, and what end of life care at home really means.
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What to expect for your hospice care at home, what services are covered by Medicare, and what end of life care at home really means.
If you have ever wondered, What happens at hospice? What to expect for hospice care? This post will walk you through a day in the life of a hospice.
Since Connecticut Hospice relies on contributions to provide customized services and therapies that aren't entirely covered by insurance, Scot Haney […]
Embracing masks during COVID 19 for health and fashion.
Florence Wald, often referred to as the Mother of Hospice in America, helped pioneer the hospice movement in America during the early 1970s.
During this time of pandemic, the mourning and grief of the bereaved are layered with the tremendous emotional impact of current circumstances. Survivors of one who has died in isolation due to pandemic restrictions, may feel not only profound grief but also trauma from their loved-one’s rapid decline, their inability to comfort them, and not being with them as they died.
A new program at Connecticut Hospice is helping people document their wishes for medical care.
Connecticut Hospice extends palliative care to patients at home with serious illness.
Chief Medical Officer, Joe Sacco speaks on Connecticut Public Radio about medical care expenses in in the final months of life
A BuzzFeedNews Article about The Connecticut Hospice Cannabis Study.
Supporting those in hardship and pain. The joy, emotional healing, and opening of hearts that comes from human togetherness.
Hospice caregivers find many people don't talk about, and plan for, death. NPR's Life Kit offers six important tasks to consider.
In this series we discuss why and how nature is so beneficial to us and we share resources to help you bring some of the natural world to your own environment, wherever you are.
Medical Director holds Haiku and "Beauty in Adversity" contests to boost staff morale. Viewers are invited to join the fun!
Support during pandemic and protest - connections made in silence, solidarity in speaking up
What is spiritual care? A CT Hospice Pastoral Care Volunteer writes about offering spiritual support.
For the Caregivers, Families & Friends of Patients We Serve Please become familiar with this information to help ensure safe […]
For hospice patients receiving care at home, stress is a familiar burden - not just during a pandemic. Relaxation strategies from veteran caregivers.
Hospice patients inevitably draw on memory to communicate a sense of themselves.
A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion from the long-term stress of caring for a loved one.
Connecticut Hospice is stepping in to take non-COVID-19 patients displaced from overcrowded New Haven area hospitals.
Most of these patients will probably be in the last few days or weeks of life, but we will step up to help wherever we can. Many of you perhaps do not realize that we hold an acute-care specialty hospital license, as well as hospice and home care licenses. You also may not know that Connecticut has the fewest hospital beds per person among the New England states, and among the lowest in the country. That ensures that our 52 beds will be important in the fight against COVID-19.
Help us keep our staff safe and healthy. Your donation will help purchase; masks, gloves, thermometers and scrubs
Admissions may be scheduled seven days a week.
Call our Centralized Intake Department: (203) 315-7540.
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