Lakeview Hospice
Our hospice program encourages choice and control over your plan of care. You, along with your family and personal doctor, decide together when hospice care should begin. Our team works together to address your physical, emotional and spiritual needs – and those of your family. Hospice works to enable you to continue an alert, pain-free life and manage your symptoms, so you’re your remaining days may be spent with dignity and quality. Hospice care can be provided in the home, nursing home, or in-patient facility such as a hospital.
The Lakeview Hospice team provides:
- Care directed by a doctor who has training in providing hospice and end-of-life care, who works in partnership with your personal doctor
- Regular visits by nurses trained in hospice care, as well as 24-hour, on-call nursing support
- Help with daily needs, such as bathing, cooking, cleaning and more
- Visits from a chaplain (if requested)
- Social service support
- Respite care
- Medical equipment and supplies
- Medications to help control pain and symptoms
- Life Stories written by trained hospice volunteers
- Volunteer support
- Family support services
- Music therapy
- Pet therapy
Consider Lakeview Hospice if you or your loved one:
- are faced with a terminal or end-stage illness;
- have cancer that has spread and all curative treatment has stopped;
- are in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, dementia, a respiratory or heart condition, or a progressive neurological disease.
Recognition:
- Lakeview Hospice is rated at 10 percent above the national average for Overall Quality of Patient Care (as reported by NRC Health’s CAHPS Hospice Survey).
Hospice Volunteer Training
Lakeview Hospital is seeking people to offer a compassionate ear and a helping hand to patients with terminal illness in Washington County, Minnesota, and St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Hospice volunteers provide a variety of services to patients and their families, from companionship and assistance with light chores for the patient to respite care for relatives. Volunteers undergo 15-20 hours of training before starting to work with patients. For more information, contact Nancy Kuckler at 651-275-8255, or Nancy.S.Kuckler@lakeview.org.
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