When life is limited, aging in place is what people want. As an advocate for the rights of those at the end of life, our team of hospice experts help patients remain at home. At VITAS, patients and families come first.
As the nation's leading provider of hospice care, VITAS has been serving patients since 1978. Our name comes from the Latin word for lives. Our goal is to do everything we can to improve the quality of life for our patients and their loved ones.
VITAS provides a special form of care for people during the last months of life. When medical treatments cannot cure a disease, VITAS interdisciplinary team of hospice professionals can do a great deal to control pain, reduce anxiety and provide medical, spiritual and emotional comfort to patients and their families.
We provide care for adults with a wide range of life-limiting illnesses, including but not limited to cancer; heart disease; stroke; lung, liver and kidney disease; multiple sclerosis; ALS; Alzheimers and AIDS.
- We offer people choices.
- We work to ease the discomfort, the fears and the high expense that can accompany incurable illness.
- We help preserve dignity.
- VITAS nurses are skilled in assessing and managing pain; they are trained caregivers who provide han
- Our social workers are available as friendly and skilled listeners to help provide emotional support
- The VITAS physician works with the patient’s physician and is available for pain and symptom m
- A home health aide is available to help with personal care, such as bathing or dental and mouth care
- The VITAS chaplain works with the familys clergy, offering spiritual support.
- Specially trained the VITAS way, volunteers are an important element of the hospice team, available
- VITAS bereavement specialists provide grief and loss counseling, memorial services and other support
- www.VITAS.com
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