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Vitas Healthcare
When Symptoms Can't Be Managed at Home, patients recieve hospice in an inpatient setting. Most of the time, hospice care is brought to the patient at home, since home is where most seriously ill people want to be: in familiar surroundings with familiar routines and familiar faces.
All hospices also must offer inpatient care for help in the assessment and management of acute, complex, or uncontrolled symptoms such as pain or shortness of breath that cannot be provided at home or in other settings.
VITAS has multiple inpatient hospice units and VITAS Suites. Some are freestanding buildings; others are located in a wing or floor of another facility. All VITAS inpatient hospice units and VITAS Suites are unique. They are designed and decorated with hospice patients and their families in mind. They function as a home away from home for a hospice patient. The focus is on comfort and dignity, even when intensive care is necessary.
Application: Call the 24/7 line for more information.
