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The Community Hospice |
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Community Hospice
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Albany County
445 New Karner Rd.
Albany, NY 12205
(518) 724-0200
Fax: (518) 724-0299 |
Community Hospice
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Amsterdam
246 Manny's Corner
Amsterdam, NY 12010
(518) 843-5412
Fax (518) 843-9057 |
Community Hospice
of
Columbia/Greene
47 Liberty Street
Catskill, NY 12414
(518) 943-5402
Fax: (518) 943-0776 |
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Community Hospice
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Rensselaer County
295 Valley View Blvd.
Rennsselaer, NY 12144
(518) 285-8100
Fax: (518) 285-8145 |
Community Hospice
of
Saratoga
179 Lawrence Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 581-0800
Fax: (518) 581-9460 |
Community Hospice
of
Schenectady
1411 Union Street
Schenectady, NY 12308
(518) 377-8846
Fax: (518) 377-8868 |
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Hospice
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Warren County
(with High Peaks Hospice)
704 Upper Glen Street
Queensbury, NY 12804
(518) 743-1672
Fax: (518) 743-544
(800) 678-0711 |
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Hospice is a choice. |
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Hospice care is a choice you make to enhance life
for a dying person. A person with a terminal disease may choose to
die at home with the support of family, friends, and caring
professionals. Hospice care emphasizes comfort measures and
counseling to provide social, spiritual and physical support to the
dying patient and his or her family. All hospice care is under
professional medical supervision. Over 90% of hospice care is
provided in the patient's home. |
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Traditional care emphasizes the use of medical
interventions, hospitalization and drugs to cure or control disease.
Traditional care may involve aggressive and expensive high-tech
medicine. The traditional approach is appropriate, when cure is
possible. The traditional approach may also be the appropriate
choice, when cure is not possible. However, it is not the only
choice. |
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Hospice provides relief from pain. |
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The physical pain arising from a terminal illness
may be debilitating, frightening and dehumanizing. Hospice providers
have the skills and resources to permit persons to live as
pain-free, as comfortable, and as full a life as possible. |
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Hospice provides support. |
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In addition to providing for the physical comfort of
the dying person, hospice provides social and spiritual support for
the patient and his or her family. This support takes the form of
time-off for the primary caregiver, personal care, nutritional
counseling, pastoral counseling, grief counseling, and help with
legal and funeral arrangements. |
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