The Executive Summary
The project of Hospice Foundation is developed in order to provide the public care services for the seriously ill, bedridden elderly people. Our mission is to provide the service to everyone in need, and relieve their physical and mental state, as well as maintain its social and spiritual potential. The main idea of the project is to provide a decent life to the person in a situation of the serious illness.
The Hospice will offer the following services:
the temporary residence for the patients and their care;
the rehabilitation after the surgeries and illness;
the assistance in obtaining social benefits;
the psychological assistance to relatives of seriously ill people.
Our services in taking care of the patience include such strategy approaches as:
the identification of people approaching the end of life and initiating discussions about the preferences for the end of life care
the care planning such as the assessing needs and preferences, agreeing a care plan to reflect these and reviewing these regularly;
the coordination of care
the management of the last days of life;
the care after death
the support for carers, both during a person’s illness and after his/her death.
Business Description
Unfortunately not all diseases can be cured. That’s why it is pointless for many patients to stay in a hospital after doctor has announced the verdict. At the same time very often they cannot come back home because medical care they constantly need is difficult to provide by family and relatives. Since being established in 1970 hospices take care for many thousand of patients yearly.
The philosophy of care provided by the hospice can be represented by the principles of compassionate and individualized as well as the holistic and supportive care.
The compassionate care implies empathy, active listening and sensitivity. It is about encouragement of patients, carers and families at the potentially difficult time. It embraces human kindness, dignity and respect. The care for patients is going to be provided in the environment they would choose because the social and personal factors can be as important as medical ones for patients at the end of life.
Individualized care implies treating everyone as an individual, i.e. the therapy is person-centered as everyone has different needs and wants. We accept and recognize the unique circumstances of each patient, carer and family, i.e. the beliefs, community, home, support, relationships and age. So that the treatment assess and manage the pain and other symptoms in the way that is appropriate to each patient, their carers and families.
The holistic care implies the delivering of excellent specialist palliative care.
The supportive care implies the help to the patients, their carers and family to cope with the progressive life-limiting disease from diagnosis, through treatment and continuing illness or death and into bereavement. It helps the patients to maximize the benefits of treatment and to live as well as possible with the effects of the disease. The availability of support can be a critical part of having as good a death as possible - ensuring the burdens of patients, carers and families are shared.
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