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What is Hospice?

Hospice is not a place, it is a concept of care. In the middle ages, a hospice was a place where weary or sick travelers could find rest or comfort on a long journey. Today hospice is a comprehensive program of care designed to help people with a life-limiting illness and their loved ones complete the journey of life.

There are many misconceptions about hospice, not the least of which is that hospice is some sort of gloomy place where people go to die. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. For patient, family, and loved ones, hospice is a special form of care designed to treat the full human being, not the disease. Hospice provides people who are dying and their loved ones with a full range of medical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs.

Hospice care neither prolongs life or hastens death. The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of a patient's last months by offering comfort and dignity.

Our Philosophy

LION HOSPICE exists to provide symptom control and support for persons in the last phases of incurable disease so they may live as fully and as comfortably as possible.

A picture of a smiling older coupleLION HOSPICE recognizes dying as part of the normal process of living and focuses on maintaining the quality of remaining life.

LION HOSPICE affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death.

LION HOSPICE exists in the hope and belief that, through appropriate care and the support of a caring community sensitive to their needs, terminally ill patients and their families may be free to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them.

LION HOSPICE offers palliative care to all terminally ill patients and support to those patients and their families without regard for diagnosis, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, race, creed disability, age, place of residence or ability to pay.