Our interdisciplinary hospice team performs many services. It helps manage the patient’s pain and symptoms with skilled nursing care, provides needed medication, medical supplies and equipment, home health aides, and coaches the family on how to care for the patient. It also assists the patient with social services to address the emotional, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of end of life needs. The hospice team also makes sure to deliver special services when needed such as music, massage, aroma and reiki therapies using only the most skilled professionals e.g. music therapy is administered only by board certified therapists who are part of our core interdisciplinary team. The hospice team also makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, and provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.