November is National Home Care, Palliative Care, and Hospice Month, a time to raise awareness about care for all those coping with life-limiting or threatening illnesses.
Valley Health System is proud to offer home care, hospice, and palliative care to patients in the community. Learn more about these service offerings.
Home Care
Since 1987, Valley Home Care has delivered high-quality healthcare services, genuine caring, and dedication to our patients, right where they need it – at home.
Valley Home Care is one of New Jersey’s largest home care agencies, serving more than 12,000 people in Bergen and Passaic counties each year.
Home care includes any professional support services that allow a person to live safely in their home. Valley Home Care has skilled nurses and other clinicians who work closely with patients’ physicians to develop an individualized plan of care that meets each patient’s wellness goals.
Services include skilled nursing, after-hospital care, home-based primary care, wound care, diabetes care, maternal and child health services, rehabilitation, home health aides, medication administration and education, social services, hospice, and palliative care.
To learn more about Valley Home Care, please visit ValleyHealth.com/HomeCare.
Palliative Care
Palliative care enhances medical treatment to help patients with serious, life-limiting, or incurable illnesses experience the highest quality of life possible. These illnesses can include congestive heart failure, advanced cancer, chronic lung disorders (such as COPD or pulmonary fibrosis), kidney failure, neurological disorders (such as dementia or Parkinson’s disease), and life-limiting diseases (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)). Services provide patients and their loved ones with comfort, support, and assistance to ease the burden of illness for both patients and their families. Palliative care can be helpful at any stage of illness.
Palliative care services at Valley include inpatient, outpatient, and in-home palliative care for patients with limited mobility. Valley takes an integrated team approach to palliative care, focusing on preventing or relieving pain and other physical, emotional, or spiritual distress that can accompany serious illness. Together with our palliative care team, Valley’s patients and their families create individualized treatment plans that reflect patient goals, needs, and beliefs.
The palliative care team is comprised of advanced practice providers, physicians, social workers, holistic practitioners, pharmacists, chaplains, and volunteers. The team works with pain management, specialists, rehabilitation therapists, respiratory therapists, and case managers.
For more information about palliative care at Valley, please visit ValleyHealth.com/PalliativeCare.
Hospice
Hospice is a care option when a patient is faced with a life-limiting disease, illness, or injury, and has received a prognosis of six months or less, as determined by a physician. Hospice’s holistic approach addresses the medical, emotional, financial, and spiritual issues that patients and families face during this challenging time in their lives. Hospice care may be provided at home, in an assisted living facility, or in a nursing home. Services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance health plans.
Valley Hospice helps to make this transition easier for patients and their families. Valley recommends that patients begin receiving hospice care as soon as possible. The more time the care team has, the more they can do to keep patients comfortable, help maintain their dignity, give them a sense of meaning, and help the family cope with the impending loss they will bear. Valley offers hospice services for all ages, including children.
The hospice team includes nurses, social workers, chaplains, a medical director, home health aides, volunteers, and end-of-life doulas. Services include pain and symptom management, medical guidance, durable medical equipment and supplies, spiritual support, social services, holistic modalities, art and music therapy, and bereavement services.
For more information about Valley Hospice, please visit ValleyHealth.com/Hospice.
