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STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
Hospice is a choice which should be carefully considered by patients, families, and attending health care professionals.
Our philosophy at Hospice of McDowell County, Inc., is to provide the best possible care to patients and their families during the last phase of life’s journey.
We have found it important for both patients and families to be able to call on the support the community can offer during this critical time in life’s history. The compassionate care of Hospice of McDowell County, Inc., in tending to the needs of patients and families enables them to focus on their important work, the healing of personal and spiritual relationships. This is accomplished through the efforts of an interdisciplinary team, including the patient’s attending physician, and as appropriate, the family’s pastor.
This therapeutic partnership of the patient/family, professionals and trained volunteers enables the patient to remain as free as possible from suffering and the distressing symptoms of disease.
Our wish for every patient is that they finish this journey at peace with themselves and their world. To that end we dedicate ourselves, our work, and our agency.
Hospice Code of Ethics
The goal of Hospice of McDowell County, Inc., is to provide the best quality care to terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice services are grounded in fundamental ethical principals of health care. These principles include Autonomy, Beneficence, Conscientious Objection, Non-malfeasance, and Justice.
STANDARDS:
1. To meet the hospice care needs of clients and their families.
2. To act in good faith; to be honest, truthful and fair to all concerned.
3. To instruct both local and national communities in the tenets of hospice philosophy.
4. To maintain the highest level of skill and expertise of the staff and volunteers in the delivery of care.
Recognizing that situations will and do arise when ethical principals conflict, the Professional Advisory Committee will be convened to deal with those situations based on standards listed above and in THE HOSPICE CODE OF ETHICS published by the National Hospice Organization.
Hospice of McDowell County, Inc.
575 Airport Road, Marion, NC 28752
Phone: (828) 652-1318
Fax: (828)
659-1631
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