Community Hospice

Community Hospice, located in Ashland, Ky., is an independent, nonprofit organization that offers a variety of social and welfare services to senior citizens throughout the state. The organization is certified by the Medicare and Medicaid. It provides routine registered nurse visits, emergency call assistance, and physician services that include a consultant, medical directors and nurse. It also offers social work services, and chaplain and spiritual care. The organization provides bereavement counseling, homemaker and home health aide, and also organizes special programs, such as physical, speech and occupational therapies. It also offers dietary counseling, prescription medications, and palliative radiation treatment of pain and symptom control. The center additionally provides medical equipment, including hospital beds, bedside commodes, wheelchairs, and oxygen and suction machines.

Founded in 1982, Hospice of Huntington provides hospice care to patients in Cabell, Wayne, Mason and Lincoln counties in West Virginia and Lawrence County in Ohio. The center provides physical, emotional and spiritual care for terminally ill patients and their families. Located in Huntington, W.Va., it serves more than 200 patients each day in their homes, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The center provides services to patients suffering from cancer, Parkinson's disease, strokes, multiple sclerosis, and heart, lung, kidney and liver diseases. It employs medical directors, nurses, certified nursing assistants, social workers, grief support counselors and patient care volunteers. The center s programs and services include specialized support, such as emotional guidance and support before and after the death of a patient.