Winneshiek Medical Center provides hospice services to people with terminal illness and their families to help maintain the best quality of life possible. Hospice care is provided wherever the person resides, whether it is in their own home, a long-term care facility or the hospital. Patients routinely receive in-home services from an interdisciplinary hospice team including a medical director, nurses, homemaker/health aides, social workers, spiritual advisors, pharmacists, and volunteers. Nursing home residents may receive hospice care as well. The team will work individually with dying person and family members to meet whatever needs arise. Hospice Care provides continued support before and after death (bereavement support for family members). A 21-hour training session is provided for volunteers/support staff (usually held once per year) to provide education on grieving and caregiving. Volunteers are utilized in the following areas: direct patient contact, fundraising, office work, publicity activities.

Regularly scheduled visists from nurses and aides, support staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many services available including: spiritual counselors, social workers, hospice chaplains and bereavement services.

AccentCare provides Hospice and Palliative Care for end-of-life comfort, peace of mind, and quality of life, in the home or an inpatient setting.

Hospice Care offered through Gundersen Palmer Lutheran provides trained volunteers, as well as, counseling, 24 hour on call nursing, social services, chaplains, and personal care professionals to help provide care for a terminally ill person in their home during the last 6 months of the patient's life. Coordination of needed home health care services including: pharmacy, dietary, physical, respiratory, speech, and occupational therapies, and the needed home medical equipment. Inpatient hospice care available at several area nursing homes and hospitals.

Hospice provides a philosophy that the quality of life is as important as the length of life. Services include care in patient’s home or in a home-like setting; pain control and comfort measures; physical, emotional, spiritual and social support; and support for family members.

Senior Helpers - Wilmette and Evanston provides support and care for terminally ill people.

Senior Helpers - Wilmette and Evanston provides support and care for terminally ill people.

MercyOne Elkader Medical Center offers in-home hospice care and out-of-home respite care services for hospice patients and their families. Out-of-home respite care services are also offered for any individual needing 24-hour care supervision. Short-term and long-term respite care services are available.

Premier Home Health Care Services, Inc. offers home health care services including personal care assistance, homemaker/companion services, 24/hour live-in services, dementia care, hospice care, and respite care.

VITAS Healthcare - Chicago provides health and general care for individuals who are in the last stages of their lives. Hospice care is available at home as well.

Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care offers a multidisciplinary approach to hospice care that caters to each individual's unique needs. In most cases, hospice care is provided in the patient's home, but it can also be at a hospital or the Rainbow Hospice inpatient unit, the Ark.

Regularly scheduled visits from nurses and aides, support staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many services available including spiritual counselors, social workers, hospice chaplains and bereavement services.

End of Life Hospice care includes symptom relief medication management, spiritual counselors, end of life planning and counseling. Also, assist caregivers with cooking, companionship, reading and reminiscing of loved ones.

Provides in home hospice care.

Provides in home hospice care.

Provides in home hospice care.

Senior Helpers - Wilmette and Evanston provides support and care for terminally ill people.

Regularly scheduled visits from nurses and aides, support staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many services available including spiritual counselors, social workers, hospice chaplains and bereavement services.

Regularly scheduled visists from nurses and aides, support staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many services available including: spiritual counselors, social workers, hospice chaplains and bereavement services.

Regularly scheduled visits from nurses and aides, support staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many services available including spiritual counselors, social workers, hospice chaplains and bereavement services.

Hospice Care is compassionate comfort care, as opposed to curative care, for people facing a terminal illness with a prognosis of six months or less, based on their physician’s estimate. Comfort care can include: • Care where the patient is most comfortable, whether a private home or a senior living community • Open and honest communication about the end-of-life process • Honoring of family traditions, faiths, and beliefs to meet people where they are on their spiritual journey • Support for family members- listening, grieving, and celebrating life

Provides in home hospice care.

Provides home health care and home hospice services.

Unity Health Hospice: Provides medical and support services to the terminally ill and their families. The focus of hospice care is provided in the home environment.

Regularly scheduled visits from nurses and aides, support staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many services available including spiritual counselors, social workers, hospice chaplains and bereavement services.