Why Heart 'n Home?

Vision Statement

Heart ‘n Home Hospice & Palliative Care is dedicated to becoming the healthcare provider of choice offering quality programs that generate a high reputation and respect in the communities we serve. We will strive to enhance existing services and diversify by developing new programs responsive to individuals' needs; therefore increasing awareness of the benefits of hospice.

Heart 'n Home Core Values

• Facilitate a safe and comfortable end-of-life experience.
• Respect patient and family decision making.
• Respect patient and family privacy.
• Assure availability of care when cure is not possible.
• Provide care using holistic (emotional, spiritual, and physical)   approaches.
• Treat symptoms and palliate suffering without prolonging life or hastening death.
• Support team principles and practices throughout the organization.
• Recognize physical, emotional, spiritual dimensions in patients and families.
• Provide end-of-life education throughout the community.
• Seek continual improvement to provide quality care.
• Serve as a community bereavement and grief resource.
• Anticipate needs before problems arise.
• Respect the cultural and religious heritage of each person served.
• Assure service availability regardless of ability to pay.

Heart ‘n Home is committed to the idea that hospice isn't about dying. It's about living and making each journey the best it can be. It's about living life to its fullest, up to the final moment. It's about receiving comfort and care. It's about surrounding yourself and your loved ones with medical, emotional, and spiritual support. Hospice doesn't give the power to shorten or prolong life, just the power to live it as you choose; to be at home, if you wish; to be pain-free; to be comforted and cared for. This is the essence of hospice. This is what we want people to understand. And this is why we love what we do.