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What is Home Health and Hospice Care, and
                                    Which is Right for You?


                  For over 40 years, Trinity Home Health and Hospice Services has served the CSRA with
            compassionate, quality home health and hospice services. Our team has over 250 years of
            collective experience. Call us first for your home care needs!

                                                          What is Hospice?
                                                                Hospice provides supportive care to
                                                          terminally ill patients who usually have a life
                                                          expectancy of six months or less. Hospice
                                                          promotes palliative care, which means
                                                          that efforts will be made to keep patients
                                                          as comfortable as possible with primary
                                                          emphasis on preventing, reducing and
                                                          controlling pain. Hospice can also prevent
                                                          unnecessary hospitalizations.
                                                                While family members or other
                                                          caregivers attend to the patient on a daily
            What is Home Health?                          basis, members of the Hospice team make
                  Home Health provides clinical support to   regular home visits to offer medical,
            patients by providing services to help them   emotional and spiritual support.
            regain their independence through medical
            care in their familiar home environment. Think   What services does Hospice provide?
            of home health care as an extension of the       • Skilled Nursing
            care you receive from your doctor’s office or    • Medical Social Worker Services
            hospital, provided at home.                      • Bereavement Counseling
                  From medication management to treatments   • Respite Care
            to therapy that helps you gain your strength     • Medical Supplies
            back, we have the skilled clinical services your   • Palliative Medication
            doctor says you need to get better – all in your   • Inpatient Care
            living room.                                     • Chaplain
                                                             • Home Health Aides
            What services does Home Health provide?          • Nurse On-Call 24/7
               • Skilled Nursing                          How do we get started?
               • Physical Therapy                         The patient or family member can start
               • Occupational Therapy                     the conversation with their physician. It is
               • Speech Therapy                           always a good idea to bring up the subject
               • Home Health Aides                        before you really feel it is needed. This
               • Medical Social Worker Services           allows time to get all questions answered and
               • Nurse On-Call 24/7                       still have time to make a decision.

                                                           Augusta: 706.729.6000

                                                           Aiken: 803.641.8220

                                                           HomeCareTrinity.com




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