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Quick Facts About Kaweah Delta:
• 400 Open-Heart Procedures Each Year
• 4,200 Cath Procedures Each Year
• 4,000 Babies Delivered Each Year
• 78,000 Treated In Our Emergency Department Each Year
• 3,200 People Employeed by the District
• 400,000 People In Our Regional Population
Hospice is care for the dying, where treatment focuses on a patient’s
comfort. The service includes visits by professionals to provide for pain management,
and the patient’s physical, emotional and spiritual needs. For more than
25 years, Kaweah Delta Hospice (formerly Hospice of Tulare County) has been there
for families in our community.
We work with patients to make their own decisions about how and where they want to live their life to its fullest. We provide care at a time when many people feel most vulnerable and afraid. We help our patients regain a sense of control over their lives and help them preserve their dignity. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. It affirms life, and views dying as a natural part of life.
The Kaweah Delta Hospice team addresses medical, emotional, spiritual and practical
needs. The patient and family are the center of this team. Together, wishes and
needs are identified and a specific plan of care is created. Team members make
regular visits to provide ongoing support and instruction to education the family
in homecare.
Here are some ways the team provides help:
- Nurses work closely with a patient’s doctor, focusing on comfort and safety. Regular visits are made through time of death.
- Social workers help coordinate care giving and planning, and provide age appropriate anticipatory grief support to the family
- Home health aides assist in the patient’s personal care
- Chaplains offer spiritual support to patients and families
- Volunteers assist companionship for patients and respite care for family members
- Special services volunteers care for particular patient and family needs like yard work, foot care, physical therapy and remembrance videos
- Hospice bereavement staff follow up with patient families for 13 months after the patient’s death
- Grief support staff and trained volunteers facilitate various grief counseling groups for Hospice families and the public. Please call us for a current schedule.
End of life care can be provided in a patient’s own home, a skilled nursing facility or other care facility.
When to Call
If you’re wondering about the right time to begin hospice care, NOW is the right time to call. Calling isn’t
a commitment; only an opportunity to learn more about the benefits Kaweah Delta
Hospice has to offer. Hospice care is available to anyone who has been certified
by a physician as having a limited life expectancy. In addition, there must be
a competent caregiver available that maintains responsibility for the care of
the patient and the patient and/or caregiver must understand that the focus of
hospice is to provide comfort (palliative) care, not curative care.
Services are provided to adult and pediatric patients with any type of condition that limits life expectancy. Hospice care is available to patients with all types of diseases including, but not limited to, cancer, AIDS, cardiac, respiratory, renal and neurological diseases.
Adult and pediatric medical directors review and monitor the care of each Kaweah
Delta Hospice patient.
For more information about Kaweah Delta Hospice or to volunteer, please call
(559) 733-0642.
Give to
the Kaweah Delta Hospice Foundation
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