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2008-01-24  FORSYTH HERALD | | | by Meg Donahue | |  |
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Hospice administrators and staff cut the ribbon Jan. 23 at their newest opening on Majors Road. (click for larger version) | |
January 28, 2008
CUMMING - Embracing Hospice opened a 15-room facility on Majors Road Jan. 23.
The 11,000 square-foot facility features a dining room, common area, reception area, nurse's station and 15 rooms with private baths. The 15 person full-time staff consists of nurses, nurse assistants, social workers and clergy to help patients and their family's deal with end-of-life issues.
Hospice care has grown in popularity as an alternative from the standard terminal illness care offered by hospitals.
Embracing Hospice's Medical Director Dr. Daulton Todd said this treatment is all about comfort.
"In western medicine there is this idea that if someone is dying you have to do something," he said. "Hospice is the idea that dying doesn't have to be treated aggressively; it can be made comfortable for the patient."
The patients who come to hospice are given their time left in terms of months rather than years. Fifty percent of hospice patients are suffering from end-stage cancer, while the other 50 percent is composed of other terminal illnesses such as end-stage diabetes, congestive heart failure or AIDS.
In fact, the average stay at a hospice is clocked at just nine days before the patient succumbs. Embracing Hospice's in-patient care is aimed at patients in crisis situations where 24-hour nursing and pain management can be administered.
The facility also opens its doors to Respite Care, giving the patient's at-home care giver the ability to check the patient into the in-patient hospice for a few days, in order to give the at-home care giver the chance to rest and take care of their own health. The hospice's main priority is to have the patient die at home surrounded by family and friends.
To this end, Embracing Hospice goes out into the homes of the terminally ill, offers pain management for the patient and spiritual counseling for the whole family if it's requested.
Currently Embracing Hospice has four hospices in the metro area serving 250 families, 35 of which are in the Cumming area.
- www.northfulton.com
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April 11, 2008 | 11:41 AM
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RN
March 29, 2008 | 12:50 PM
I would like to work for your organization, at the Cumming location.
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February 11, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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I am an RN in Nevada.
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