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About Peachtree Hospice
Peachtree Mission
Our team of professional employees and volunteers promote and provide quality care to terminally ill individuals and their families.
Peachtree Vision
Our vision is to be end-of-life experts. We will accomplish this by expanding our patient care services, increasing our level of competence internally and educating individuals and healthcare providers in our community.
Peachtree Values
- Our patients and families have a choice when selecting hospice care. Our quality care and customer service define our organization. We anticipate, listen to, and own the concerns of our patients, families, and healthcare partners until they are pleased with our efforts and responsiveness.
- Our community consists of a diverse population. We will provide care in an unbiased manner that displays respect for individual, cultural and religious differences. We will attempt to educate ourselves on unique differences of various groups to better serve these communities.
- The issues involving end-of-life care can pose many challenges. We will not compromise our values in the delivery of care or any aspect of our operations.
- We are committed to open communication. We feel that direct and honest communications to patients and families provides realistic understanding of dying and death.
- We are an integral part of our community. We support continuous education on end-of-life care, provide bereavement programs open to the community, and participate in activities to guide regulatory change.
- We feel that dying and death are a normal part of life and that one's remaining time should be measured qualitatively by comfort and dignity.
- We are committed to teamwork. Care for terminally ill patients are their families requires a multidisciplinary team of employees and volunteers focused on alleviating physical, spiritual, psychosocial, and mental pain.
- Our most valuable company asset is the employee. We strive to provide an environment that will promote continual education, reduce job stress and allow us to retain excellent employees.
- We will be fiscally responsible to ensure the stability of our organization and support our efforts to achieve our mission and vision.
Peachtree Philosophy
- Hospice care is specialized care for people with life limiting prognosis
- Hospice care is a medically directed interdisciplinary team managed program of service that focuses on the patient and family as the unit of service
- Hospice care is palliative, rather than curative, with an emphasis on pain management and symptom control, so that a person may live the last days of life fully, with dignity and comfort, at home or in a home-like setting
What is Hospice?
Hospice is a special kind of care designed to provide support for people in the final phase of terminal illness. Hospice is a steadily growing concept of humane and compassionate care which can be implemented in a variety of settings, such as a patient homes, hospitals, or long term care facilities. Hospice care seeks to enable patients to carry on an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so their last days may be spent with dignity and quality at home or in a a home-like setting.
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