Hospice Services

AMHA Hospice

Setting the highest standards for end-of-life care
Hospice focuses on a team approach to providing care to patients and their families. More than expert medical care and symptom and pain management, hospice services include emotional and spiritual support to patients, families, and others who need support through the end-of-life process.

Comprehensive care
Hospice improves a patient’s quality of life, providing services through a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals and volunteers.

Our range of services includes:

• Nursing care
• Physician care
• Social work
• Spiritual care
• Bereavement support
• Counseling
• Volunteer services
• Respite care
• Self-care assistance
• Therapies
• Medical equipment
• Medical supplies
• Medications
• Palliative care
• Companionship
• Short-term care in a facility

Compassionate professionals
Our team of nurses, physicians, therapists, social workers, and home health aides specialize in hospice care. To ensure the highest quality of care, they undergo extensive screening and training.

AMHA Hospice values individual differences and maintains an environment that is open and accepting of all people, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or age.

Physician leadership
AMHA Hospice medical directors are an integral part of the multidisciplinary care team. Led by our full-time medical director, Dr. Barry Freeman, MD and  Dr. Baoan Le, MD. The medical directors provide expertise to the AMHA team to ensure the highest quality hospice care possible. They collaborate with primary care physicians to help our patients remain comfortable at end-of-life and act as expert resources to the local medical community.

Support for veterans
AMHA is a four star (highest rating) of We Honor hospice care for veterans.  We are Veteran owned family hospice with three year generation of military services. To help improve the care provided to veterans, AMHA Hospice implements ongoing veteran-centered education and training for its staff and volunteers.  Our veteran program is uniquely developed and managed by Donald Shannon, Retired Army of 22 years.

AMHA Hospice provides the services our veterans need to experience a more peaceful end-of-life. Veterans have unique needs related to military service, combat experience, or other traumatic events. AMHA Hospice recognizes these needs and provides them with the care and support they deserve unmatched by any other hospices.