Your Benefits
Comfort Care
Comfort care improves a person’s life. It reduces suffering and provides support. Comfort care also includes wound care, medication management, and pain and symptom relief.
- Wound care – we improve comfort and reduce problems, such as infection.
- Medication Management – we help manage medicines and look out for drug interactions.
- Pain and Symptom Relief – we manage pain and symptoms at every stage of your illness.
At Family First, we make certain there is comfort in your care.
Your Benefits of Care Add Value to Your Services
Benefits of care come standard with our services. This adds value for all patients and families who receive hospice or palliative care.
Here are some of our most commonly requested patient benefits. If you would like a benefit not seen here, please ask!
Medical Social Services
Medical social services includes your healthcare social worker. They will help you identify your goals and address concerns about your care.
Your healthcare social worker will:
- Give information about care plans
- Help you solve problems or get resources
- Offer respite care for your caregiver
- Answer financial questions
- Arrange visits with volunteers
- Help you and your family cope with stress
They are on call for you 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
Medical Equipment
Suppose you need special medical equipment to relieve pain or manage a medical problem. Then, we make certain that your needs are met.
Mental-Emotional Care
Mental-emotional care helps people who are faced with a big change in their health and life. For instance, learning about a serious illness could be difficult. Also, a referral to hospice can take a toll on emotions. In cases like these, our mental health care professionals can help. They work with range of mental health conditions and emotions such as anxiety, depression, and more.
Respite Care
We provide short-term relief care so that your care-givers so can rest.
Spiritual Care
At Family First, we honor our patients’ spiritual and religious beliefs. Spiritual care can offer hope during times of crisis. We offer pastoral and spiritual care support to all patients and families.
Grief and Loss Support
Grief is a personal journey toward healing. Each person experiences it differently from the next. This is common in families when there is a loss of life. Grief may appear as sadness, anxiety, or anger. Sometimes, people feel grief both before and after a loss.
Grief and loss support can help us find our way again when someone we love dies. Therefore, we offer grief counseling, bereavement, and caregiver support.
Our support starts from the time you enter our care and beyond. Your bereavement counselor will support your family, friends, and loved ones. This support starts now and continues after their loss.
Volunteer Support
Volunteers offer companionship. They also assist with patient support. Sometimes, they may help with daily activities such as reading. Also, some volunteers run errands.
