Hospice Care
When you or a loved one has a life-limiting illness, look to Benefis Peace Hospice of Montana for complete, compassionate care and support.
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What is Hospice Care?
Hospice care is health care that focuses on comfort and symptom management near the end of life. The goal of hospice is to care for patients and family that creates comfort, care and meaning in a home environment.
10 Things You Should Know About Hospice Care
Where You Get Hospice Care
Benefis Peace Hospice of Montana cares for patients wherever they call home throughout Cascade, Pondera, Toole, Teton, and Chouteau counties.
A patient's “home” may be their private residence, the home of a loved one, an assisted living facility, an adult family home, or a nursing home. We also offer hospice at the Peace Hospice House Residential/Inpatient Facility.
Our hospice team is specially trained to help people as they face emotional, spiritual, and practical matters at the end of life.
Types of Care
To ensure you live the remainder of your life with as much quality of life and dignity as possible you'll receive:
- Emotional
- Medical
- Psychological
- Spiritual support
Hospice Care Team
Your loved one will get care from an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals that tailors care to meet your loved one's needs. Your hospice care team will work with your loved one's primary care provider to create and adhere to a plan ensuring the last days are lived out to their fullest and according to their preferences. The hospice interdisciplinary team may include:
- Primary care physician
- Peace Hospice of Montana Medical Director
- Chaplain
- Clinical social worker
- Dietitian
- Home health aide
- Registered nurse case manager
- Pharmacist
- Physical, occupational, and speech therapists
- Specially trained volunteers
- Bereavement counselors
Grief Support
Benefis Peace Hospice of Montana grief support groups are offered at no cost to those in our community who are grieving the loss of a loved one. The grief support groups are facilitated by clinical social workers with specialized bereavement training.
The loss of a loved one does not end, but is instead a process of grief and does not look the same for any two people.
Attending a grief support group offers the opportunity to share feelings, process and hear from others who are experiencing similar losses. Benefis Peace Hospice of Montana offers the following grief support groups:
- Children and Teens
- Camp Francis
- Darcy’s Hope
- TAG
- Adults
- Life After Suicide
Talk to your care team for more information.
