“Every year, nearly 1.6 million people living with a life-limiting illness receive care from hospice and palliative care providers in this country,” said J. Donald Schumacher, president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “These highly-trained professionals ensure that patients and families find dignity, respect, and love during life’s most difficult journey.”

Hospice is not a place. Hospice and palliative care programs provide pain management, symptom control, psychosocial support, and spiritual care to patients and their families when a cure is not possible.

Hospice and palliative care combines the highest level of quality medical care with the emotional and spiritual support that families need most when facing the end of life. Through this specialized quality care, we see many patients and their families experience more meaningful moments together. Hospice helps them focus on living despite a terminal diagnoses.

“Thanks to Hospice my husband got to live three and a half months at home surrounded by his family & friends. The care was indescribable! The Hospice team became family; they’re loving, caring, professional, and they asked about me.” These were words that were shared with us by a family that experienced services provided by Hospice of Lake Cumberland.

For more information about Hospice of Lake Cumberland, please call 800-937-9596 or visit our website at www.hospicelc.org.

Clinton County Judge/Executive Richard Armstrong, left, and Albany Mayor Nicky Smith, right, recently met with Hospice of Lake Cumberland employee Jacey Matthews, RN Case Manager, and David Bowlin, Hospice of Lake Cumberland Systems Administrator. Armstrong and Smith signed joint proclamations declaring November as Hospice and Palliative Care Month in Albany and Clinton County.

Hospice helps patients and families focus on quality of life

Hospice of Lake Cumberland makes more meaningful moments possible