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Causes: Hospices, Human Services
Mission: Hospice of the western reserve provides palliative end-of-life care, caregiver support, and bereavement services throughout northern ohio. In celebration of the individual worth of each life, we strive to relieve suffering, enhance comfort, promote quality life, foster choice in end-of-life care and support effective grieving.
Programs: Hospice care services are about providing people (adults and children) with a life-limiting illness, and their families with choices and dignity. Care is provided wherever the patients live; in their home, in a hospital, assisted living/long-term care facility or at two hospice house residential facilities. In 2017, hospice of western reserve provided 421,871 patient days. Care is provided by a team of paid and volunteers who are available 24-hours a-day, seven days a week. Additionally, bereavement services are provided for families for more than a year following the loss of a loved one.