Alive Hospice
Programs
Description
We provide comprehensive end-of-life care delivered in the patient's home, in a nursing home, hospital, Alive Hospice Residence Nashville, Alive Hospice at Saint Thomas Hospital and Alive Hospice at Skyline Madison Campus.
Program Areas Served
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We provide comprehensive end-of-life care delivered in the patient's home, in a nursing home, hospital, Alive Hospice Residence Nashville, Alive Hospice at Saint Thomas Hospital and Alive Hospice at Skyline Madison Campus.
Program Areas Served
None
Description
We provide individual counseling and support groups for families of Alive Hospice patients, as well as to anyone else in the community wishing to access this service. Our hospice patient families are offered services free of charge. Our community clients are assessed on a sliding scale fee basis. As with our patient care services, no client is ever turned away because of an inability to pay for services.
Program Areas Served
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We provide individual counseling and support groups for families of Alive Hospice patients, as well as to anyone else in the community wishing to access this service. Our hospice patient families are offered services free of charge. Our community clients are assessed on a sliding scale fee basis. As with our patient care services, no client is ever turned away because of an inability to pay for services.
Program Areas Served
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Description
Alive Monarchs is the Alive Hospice children's program. Every day, we care for terminally ill children and their families. We have the only dedicated pediatrics team in the Middle Tennessee area.
Program Areas Served
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Alive Monarchs is the Alive Hospice children's program. Every day, we care for terminally ill children and their families. We have the only dedicated pediatrics team in the Middle Tennessee area.
Program Areas Served
None
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| Hospice workers often speak of "a good death." To those who do not work or volunteer in hospice, that term may appear to be an oxymoron. How can death ever be "good?" The hospice model of care characterizes a good death this way: that a patient living his or her final months, weeks, or days does so in a manner that is consistent with his or her wishes. Most of our patients opt for comfort care rather than curative care. Many choose to remain at home, surrounded by the people and things they love. Others wish to die somewhere other than home. For some, becoming at peace with spiritual questions characterizes a good death. For others, the opportunity to make amends or to accept amends creates meaningful life closure. In short, a good death means different things to different people. Alive partners with each patient and his or her family to create for that person his or her "good death." |
