Services
The best way to see if Hospice Care Network can help you or a loved one is to give us a call.
Services at Home
The goal of Hospice Care Network is to provide care wherever people live. While the majority of the people on our hospice program prefer to stay in their own homes, we also care for them in designated nursing homes or assisted living facilities, and at our specialized homelike hospice care center.
Services at The Hospice Inn
The Hospice Inn may be appropriate for people with advanced illness:
- Whose pain and symptom management needs are greater than can be managed at home
- Who are transitioning from the hospital to hospice at home
- Whose caregiver needs a brief period of respite
- Who are nearing the end of their disease progress
The Hospice Inn is beautifully furnished with 18 private rooms and amenities such as a family-style kitchen, sunroom and outdoor terrace, and offers people and their loved ones privacy, comfort and quality of life. Sleep-in accommodations and a convenient central location along major highways on the border of Nassau and Suffolk Counties make for easy visiting any time, day or night.
HCN’s expert physicians, nurses and personal care aides are on staff at The Hospice Inn at Huntington to deliver quality medical care to treat the pain and symptoms of the person’s illness, and our social workers, chaplains and trained volunteers are also on-site to provide counseling and companionship.
Services at the Hospice & Palliative Care Unit at Franklin Medical Center:
The Hospice & Palliative Care Center at Franklin services people in the final stages of life, as well as their families, with care and comfort in an inpatient setting designed to feel like home. Private rooms, homelike décor and parlors for family respite contribute to a peaceful, dignified environment. People and their families are treated with the utmost compassion by a dedicated and responsive staff, and can take comfort in unlimited visitation and sleep-in accommodations.
Services in a Nursing Home
When nursing home residents choose Hospice Care Network to assist with their care, we will work with the nursing home to enhance the person’s comfort. While Medicare and most insurance plans will cover this, the person receiving services will still have to pay the nursing home’s daily room and board fee. (For those on Medicaid, the room and board charge will be covered by Medicaid.)
Services for the Family
Many issues arise when a family is facing the loss of a loved one. Because emotional and spiritual well-being are as important as managing pain and symptoms, a large staff of licensed social workers and chaplains play an integral role on our care team. We recognize that each person and their family is unique, and we strive to be responsive to the special needs of everyone we serve.
Our goal is for people to have a peaceful, meaningful, end-of-life experience—one in which they have the time and physical capacity to get their affairs in order, have meaningful conversations with friends and loved ones, and resolve any unfinished "business" in their lives.
Hospice Care Network’s counseling team will:
- Provide individual and family counseling
- Assist the person and caregiver with stress management skills
- Help people and families understand the feelings they may be having
- Provide information and link the family to community resources they may need
- Provide support and education regarding end-of-life issues
- Meet jointly with people and families to facilitate meaningful conversation and resolve issues
- Help family members anticipate grief and bereavement issues
- Provide special counseling for children who are close to the person in our hospice program
- Troubleshoot issues that may be affecting the person’s quality of life
- Provide bereavement counseling to family members for one year following the death.
At the request of the person on our program, Hospice Care Network chaplains will:
- Offer prayer with people and their family members
- Answer questions and discuss concerns about spiritual matters
- Offer help in coping with common feelings such as loneliness, anger and fear
- Help contact the person’s own clergy, if desired
- Facilitate receiving sacraments of the church
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) creates national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information. This law was enacted to protect patient privacy and improve the security, accuracy and integrity of the electronic transmission of health information. HIPAA provisions affect providers (that means Hospice Care Network), payers, and all other entities that share in the exchange of health information. This new law requires that a privacy notice be given to all patients and makes it illegal to release health information to inappropriate parties, or fail to adequately protect health information from release. If violated, civil and criminal penalties can be incurred.
The warm, caring, compassionate, loving care given to my husband during months of illness will never be forgotten by any one of us. 
