Alive Hospice Inc

Programs: Alive hospice serves those who have a limited life expectancy (regardless of illness or age) and live within the agency's 12-county service area. Alive hospice provided end-of-life care to 3,406 patients during 2014. Additionally, the agency provided palliative care (for patients who desire comfort care as they pursue curative treatments for life-threatening illnesses) through the launch of a joint venture with aspire health. Only alive hospice provides this unparalleled scope of services: in-home hospice services; inpatient residential care at it's 30-bed alive hospice residence nashville facility; alive hospice units located within hospitals; inpatient hospice care at other hospitals throughout middle tennessee; full-time medical directors (physicians) on staff; alive grief support services, counseling and support for those who have experienced loss; individualized, interdisciplinary care teams - 24 hour, 7 days-a-week; and accessibility to highly skilled clinical staff. Home care services:the majority of alive hospice's patients are served in their homes. Home hospice care services are designed to ease pain, alleviate symptoms, and provide support to the patients and their caregivers. In addition to these services provided by our skilled team, we provide medical equipment and supplies, medication and caregiver training. Alive hospice served 2,649 patients in their homes during 2014. Inpatient hospice care:our inpatient facilities allow care to be provided for patients who are unable to be cared for at home or may be experiencing a medical crisis. - alive hospice residence nashville (883 patients were served in 2014)- alive hospice at saint thomas west hospital (272 patients were served in 2014)- alive hospice at tristar skyline madison campus (448 patients were served in 2014)- inpatient care provided by alive hospice at your local hospitalsalive monarchs:alive hospice has a long tradition of serving patients of all ages who face life threatening illnesses. Alive monarchs is one of the few hospice care providers for perinatal and pediatric patients in the nation. The beautiful monarch butterfly inspired the name of alive hospice's pediatric program. Butterflies, which are closely associated with hospice care, signify hope, the beauty of life and the celebration of those we love. A total of 25 pediatric patients and their families received care in 2014. Palliative care:alive hospice, through a joint venture with aspire health, offers palliative care services for those who are not in need of hospice care, but who do have incurable and progressive diseases. Palliative care addresses the symptoms of a disease regardless of life expectancy, while hospice care addresses those symptoms when the patient's life expectancy can be thought of in months rather than years. Alive grief support services:grief is a natural process and alive grief support services is a comprehensive program that addresses the needs that arise following the death of a loved one. Alive grief support services provides bereavement care for patients' family members and the community at large. Our services are designed to meet the bereavement needs of children and adults who have experienced the death of a loved one in the past two years. Alive grief support services have professional grief counselors and trained volunteers to guide individuals through the process of mourning. This assistance is available in both individual counseling sessions and group settings for any bereaved person, regardless of the nature of the death. Grief counseling helps adults, children, and families cope with death and grief as they face the loss of loved ones. Grief support programs include: - individual counseling (666 adults and children received 3,148 individual counseling sessions during 2014) - support groups for loss of spouses, parents, children, siblings and other loved ones (there were 24 grief support groups in 2014) - camp evergreen, camp forget-me-not and alive teen retreat, camps for bereaved children and adolescents (82 participants of the camps in 2014) - holiday grief seminars (there were 3 grief seminars during the holidays that drew in 85 people. ) - grief line and mailings (there were 3,181 calls to the grief line as well as 18,532 bereavement mailings in 2014. )charity care:in addition, alive hospice has a policy of providing charity care to patients who are unable to pay. Charity care expenses were $731,139 for the year ended december 31, 2014.