Pioneer Memorial Hospital Hospice Services
What You Should Know
Hospice care is available in Crook County through Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Our team of nurses, therapists, caregivers and volunteers treat the hospice patient’s physical needs as well as the emotional and spiritual needs. Hospice Volunteers and Grief Recovery classes are offered to anyone in our community.
What is Hospice?
Hospice is a special kind of care for dying people, their families and their caregivers that:
- Treats the physical needs of patients as well as their emotional and spiritual needs
- Takes place in the patient's home, or in a home-like setting
- Concentrates on making patients as free of pain and as comfortable as they want to be so they can make the most of the time that remains to them
- Considers helping family members an essential part of its mission
- Believes the quality of life to be as important as the length of life
Hospice History
Hospice has its roots in the Middle Ages when shelters called hospices were available to travelers who had nowhere else to stay. The word took on new meaning when the first modern hospice was founded in London in 1968. The founder, Cicely Saunders, believed existing institutions geared to curing people were ignoring the special needs of the dying. The first American Hospice was started in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1974. From the beginning, the American model stressed Hospice as a home service.
PMH Hospice – Dedicated to Making Life Worth Living
Most people do not want to die alone in sterile, impersonal surroundings, hooked up by tubes to machines and cut off from their families and friends and everything that's familiar. Hospice helps make this possible.
Nor do they want to die in pain. They would prefer, if possible, to spend their last days at home... alert and free of pain... among the people and things they love. PMH Hospice is dedicated to making life worth living.
Our Pledge to You
You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but to help you live until you die.
Our Office Hours
Monday - Friday
7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Available and On-Call 24 Hours a Day