A loss of a loved one, even if anticipated, brings a slew of emotions and grief for surviving family and friends. Our hospice bereavement professionals and volunteers are trained to provide counseling and support by understanding the loss and compassionately walking step by step with surviving spouses, children, or parents.

Our hospice volunteers spend time with patients and their loved ones. They provide caregiver relief, companionship, and supportive services. They allow hospice to provide services it otherwise could not offer. Volunteers form bonds with patients and family members. Patients and families often tell volunteers things they feel they can’t tell their loved ones and help open the way for people to talk honestly. Volunteers work alongside paid staff in every area of hospice care.

To help our patients cope with the end of their life, Advanced Hospice provides spiritual services by certified chaplains to promote spiritual and emotional well being. Our chaplains may also work with the patient’s clergy and coordinate spiritual nourishment and revitalization.

Our Nurses are specifically dedicated to comfort and quality of life. They are focused on pain and symptom management for our patients around the clock. In addition to serving the terminally ill, hospice nurses counsel and educate caregivers and family members on the needs of the patient, guiding them through every issue that may arise. Our hospice nurses work as a part of an interdisciplinary team that develops and manages the care for our patients and their families.

A STATE OF THE ART INFUSION CENTER

Serving Northern California since Spring 2016

We have recently opened a state of the art Infusion Center. This outpatient clinic enables people to receive intravenous therapy at a low cost in their local neighborhood. We are very proud to provide this services to our community, and enable many to receive IV therapy without a trip to the hospital.

Wound care is a specialty area of physical therapy that involves prevention, assessment, and treatment of acute or chronic wounds that will not heal via traditional wound care methods. Unfortunately, many chronic wounds heal very slowly, do not heal, or worsen despite best efforts for caregivers to promote tissue repair. Our Physical Therapists have been trained in the application of several treatment modalities for wound care.

HEALTH IS MORE THAN MEDICAL

When a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness or is recovering from an injury, our medical professionals, nurses, and therapists work hard to rejuvenate him/her to normal life. In addition to purely medical procedures, medications, and techniques, a huge part of a person’s recovery depends on his/her psychosocial condition. Our medical social workers assess patients and determine their social, emotional, financial, and environmental needs. Then, our social workers coordinate with their interdisciplinary team and keep them informed on the patient’s unique needs and predicaments.