Who We Are
Coastal Hospice of georgia
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide outstanding end-of-life care in our community, with an unprecedented commitment to compassionate communication and responsiveness.
Expert Healthcare in the Comfort of Home
Coastal Hospice of Georgia is a local hospice agency with teams of specialized caregivers dedicated to supporting patients and families throughout our region. Our branch locations are in Hazlehurst and Brunswick, allowing us to provide expert, compassionate medical and psychosocial care for individuals and their loved ones facing a terminal illness. Our hospice team works closely with your physician and primary care team to ensure you and your family receive the support needed to maximize quality of life in the comfort of familiar surroundings and in the company of family and friends.
About Hospice Care Services
At Coastal Hospice, We Proudly Provide:
Collaboration
Support from an interdisciplinary team that includes doctors and nurse practitioners, nurses, personal care aides, social workers, pharmacists, chaplains, volunteers, and bereavement-support staff.
Communication
Access to a hospice nurse twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Collaboration and care planning with your current medical providers and facility staff when the patient resides in an assisted living community or skilled nursing facility.
Resources
Medically necessary equipment and supplies related to hospice care (such as hospital beds, walkers, bedside commodes, briefs, wound care supplies, and more), and medications related to your hospice diagnosis.
Spiritual & Social Support
Emotional and spiritual support provides you the opportunity to maintain control of your life and any decisions that you desire assistance with. Our trained Chaplains and Social Workers are here to offer comfort for both patients and their families experiencing the grief process, including bereavement care for up to 6 months after a patient’s passing.
A Unique Approach
Hospice care is a specialized type of care for patients facing life-limiting illnesses. It was first described by Cicely Saunders, who lived in Great Britain and spent her days caring for terminally ill patients. Her years of experience led her to develop a concept called “total pain,” which recognized that the pain felt by a patient facing death is never only physical.
Saunders believed pain felt by terminally ill patients is multifaceted. She believed approaches to caring for these patients should be multifaceted, as well. The modern-day idea of hospice is built upon this concept of comprehensive care for those facing the end of life.
Today, because of Dr. Saunders’ work and research, hospice care addresses not only the physical and medical needs of patients with serious illnesses, but also the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of those patients as well. Hospice care is provided by physicians, nurses, hospice aides, licensed social workers, chaplains and volunteers and is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most commercial insurance plans.
Expert Care at Home
In-home hospice care is uniquely designed to meet a variety of patient needs and ease both physical & emotional symptoms, wherever they reside:
- Private Residence or Group Home
- Independent Living, Assisted Living or Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Acute Hospital, Long-Term Acute Care Hospital or Rehab Hospital
Your Holistic Care Team at Coastal Hospice Includes:
Wondering if hospice is needed for your loved one?
Living with a life-limiting illness doesn’t have to mean suffering with pain, fear, anxiety, frequent ER visits and other symptoms. Here are some common conditions and indicators where hospice may be recommended:
- Frequent re-hospitalizations
- Progressive decline in cognitive abilities
- Increase in medications
- Progressive weight loss
- Refusal to eat
- Loss of ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs)
- Loss of ability to sit up without assistance
- Need for higher level of care
- Multiple diseases with frequent exacerbations
- Progressive decline in functional abilities
- Frequent infections
- Non-healing wounds / increasing wounds
- Loss of ability/difficulty to swallow
- Patient or family requesting comfort care
- Loss of ability to walk independently
- Incontinence of bladder and bowel
- No longer responding to treatments
With over 100 years of combined, trusted, clinical experience, we are your local hospice here to help with any support and services that will benefit your family.
