Compassus

If you or a loved one is facing a life-limiting illness, VITAS Healthcare can help. We focus on you, not your disease, to ensure comfort and dignity near the end of life. VITAS provides you and your family with a team of hospice professionalsphysician, nurse, hospice aide, social worker, chaplain, volunteerto meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs. We care for you wherever you call homea private residence, assisted living community or nursing home. If symptoms become severe, we have Intensive Comfort Care, shifts of 24-hour continuous care until symptoms are under control. For those symptoms that cannot be managed at home, VITAS also provides inpatient hospice beds and units in local hospitals. With VITAS youre never alone. Were available 24/7/365, with support available even on holidays and weekends. In the transition from hospital to home, from curative to palliative care, from chronic to end-stage disease, VITAS is with you every step of the way.

Parker Jewish Institute, located in New Hide Park, N.Y., is a nonprofit health care organization. It provides clinical services, such as cardiopulmonary, home care, imaging, intensive and critical care, mental health, nutrition, pediatric, respiratory, and surgical care. The other services of the center include diagnostic and assessment, primary and medical care, clinical evaluation and treatment of dementia, memory screenings, vision and hearing tests, podiatry services, and nutrition counseling. It also offers women s health care services, including mammography, maternity homes and educational classes. The organization offers rehabilitation services to the senior citizens. Its services include physical, occupational and speech therapies, and transitional care. The health care center organizes various adult day care and educational programs for the community. It additionally provides 24-hour medical care and emergency services to the patients.