Hospice

The Landsberg Comprehensive Community Hospice offers highly specialized care for terminally ill patients and support for their families. Through pain control and symptom management, as well as emotional and spiritual support, our thoroughly experienced professional staff provides care at home, at Parker Jewish Institute or other contracted nursing facilities.

Members of the hospice team create personalized, comprehensive care plans that meet the individual needs of each patient, and foster a calm and loving environment that benefits and comforts patients and family members.

Every patient has access to:

• skilled nursing
• physician services
• physical, occupational and speech therapy
• spiritual counseling
• nutritional services
• inpatient respite
• short-term inpatient care
• ambulette transportation
• medical equipment and medications
• bereavement counseling
• social work services
• home health aides
• 24-hour on-call services
  

Parker's hospice program also offers complementary care/alternative medicine which offers holistic benefits designed to comfort the body, mind and spirit.

Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurance plans are accepted.

Call 718-289-2800 or 516-586-1575

Comfort at the End of Life, in the Jewish Tradition

A program of the Landsberg Comprehensive Community Hospice, "Nechama" provides hospice care in a manner that is profoundly sensitive to the Jewish way of life. Under the guidance of a respected rabbinic authority, Nechama offers a comprehensive range of medical, therapeutic and spiritual services.

The Nechama Hospice Program offers modalities such as tube feedings for persons with dysphagia, IV hydration, and antibiotics. Other Nechama features that meet the needs of the Jewish patient and family include: a Halachically acceptable "living will"; the opportunity for Viduy (confession before death); strict observance of dietary and modesty laws, prayer, Shabbos and Yom Tov; and Jewish pastoral care.