CHI Health at Home

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CHI Health at Home

CHI Health at Home - Hospice is a special way of caring for people who are seriously ill, with the emphasis on comfort (palliative) care and symptom control rather than on curative treatments.  It focuses on improving the quality of life for individuals and their families faced with a life-limiting illness and a life expectancy of less than six months (if the disease follows its normal course).  The primary goals of hospice care are to provide comfort, relieve physical, emotional and spiritual suffering and promote the dignity of terminally ill individuals by highly skilled hospice team.  Care is provided wherever the patient lives, whether in a private home, nursing home or an assisted living facility.  

CHI Health at Home offers complimentary informational visits to help clients and their families learn more about the hospice program at any time.  During informational visits, a Hospice team member will meet with clients and their families to listen to their concerns and offer information and assistance.  Some reasons to call for an informational visit include, but are not limited to:  Unexplained significant weight loss, worsening of disease, despite treatment, difficult to control symptoms, multiple health concerns and recurrent hospitalizations or emergency room visits.  

Requests for information can come from doctor’s clients, family, friends, health care professionals, clergy and other members of the community.  You do not need a doctor’s referral to schedule an informational visit.

More information about hospice, palliative care, and advance care planning is available from CHI Health at home, 815 2nd Street SE, Little Falls, MN  56345 or call 320-631-5575 or on NHPCO’s CaringInfo.org.