Medical Social and Spiritual Services

Medical Social Services and Spiritual Services

Counseling for our patients and families. We help you through the emotional, financial and spiritual process.

Grane Hospice has a professional care team that provides the Medical, Spiritual, and Bereavement counseling needed for the patient and their family. We assist you with many of the tasks that seem so difficult during this time. We help the patient and family in coming to terms with dying. We assist in tasks that make dying a less complicated grieving process.

Medical Social Services

It is certainly a delicate and difficult period for a family to deal with a terminal illness. We assist with organization, coordination, and implementation of necessary paperwork, as well as daily medical coordination, including the Medicare Hospice Benefit and private insurance forms. Our Medical Social Worker provides emotional support to the patient, family and staff, and provides ongoing education and assistance with available Grane Hospice services. The Medical Social Worker will make an initial visit to a new hospice patient within 5 days of admission and will continue to make visits on a monthly basis.

The Medical Social Worker will discuss and assist with:

Advanced Directives (Living Wills, Power of Attorney (POA), Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) orders)
The entire hospice process
The need for respite care, coordination with the family and care facility
Coordinate placement into a personal care home or nursing facility if higher levels of care are needed
Coordinate the Hospice Team and Bereavement Coordinator as needed
Provide information to the family regarding private duty care, Agency on Aging services, funeral homes and services, VA benefits, and insurance or financial assistance with medical assistance

Spiritual Services

Grane Hospice offers pastoral care for both routine and emergency purposes. The Pastoral Care team at Grane Hospice is comprised of ordained ministers with various religious affiliations. In keeping with the Hospice philosophy, the goal of the pastoral care team is to provide an interfaith forum where spiritual needs of the individual come first, not the denomination. Patients and their families will be relieved knowing Grane Hospice provides spiritual services during their entire journey. The spiritual team can also assist with funeral arrangements and conducting memorial services.

About Our Ministers

Available to provide a listening ear when you are worried, afraid or just need to talk
Address spiritual concerns you may have
Will join you in prayer, read scripture, or just sit quietly
Provide or arrange for religious sacraments or other religious rites
Conduct funeral and/or memorial services

Pastoral Care

As a discipline, pastoral care is available to help families as they struggle with questions or feelings that are asked during a life-threatening illness:

Why me?
Why do good people suffer?
How do I find spiritual peace?
What are my beliefs and feelings about illness and death?
How do I understand the successes and failures of my life?
How do I deal with regrets?
What do I need to say to the people I love?

If you have a spiritual affiliation, with your permission, we can contact your minister to invite them to communicate with our interdisciplinary team so we can best serve your needs mutually.

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