Home Care & Hospice Support Services

Palliative care can be offered simultaneously with life-prolonging curative therapies for patients living with serious illness. Palliative care guides patients and their families as they journey through the changing goals of care and assists in better understanding of treatment options. Palliative care nurse visits are not direct-care skilled nurse services, but, rather, focus on assessment, information, referral, and teaching. If direct nurse care visits are needed patients are referred to home palliative care program.

As you age, your goals, your needs, your routines change, and so must your medical care. As you enter your senior years, odds are you will encounter new problems (from a disability to illnesses). Our focus is to promote healthy aging and prevent disease while at the same time managing your chronic conditions in order to preserve you independence, maintain your function and allow you to live life to its fullest.

Our geriatricians specialize in caring for adults 65 years of age or older.

The team at the Wound Care Center at Bristol Hospital cares for non-healing and complex wounds. Our state-of the-art facility offers a multidisciplinary team approach to resolve your wound issues. Skilled staff includes physicians and nurses with advanced training in wound management and hyperbaric medicine.

There are many approaches to therapy- including individual, group and family therapies. Any of these may be recommended to you. Your flexibility is appreciated so that we may provide the most helpful service possible. Despite the variations, all therapies are a two-way process that works especially well when patients and their therapists communicate openly. Therapy also works best when attended on a regular basis and for all scheduled sessions.