Good Samaritan Hospice

About Good Samaritan Hospice (Good Sam for short) has been serving the Roanoke and New River valleys since 1992. As the only community-based, not-for-profit hospice, Good Sam provides hospice and grief support to patients, families, and the community regardless of their ability to pay. With an interdisciplinary team of caregiving professionals, including the area's only full-time medical director as well as trained volunteers, Good Sam offers quality patient care, family support, community education, and counseling services. Good Sam understands that hospice is really about life. When you choose Good Sam, you are choosing to live with the best possible quality of life for whatever time is left.

Operational since 1980, Carilion Hospice Services of New River Valley, a part of Carilion Clinic, offers a range of hospice services. The organization provides pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual support, and bereavement care services. It offers treatment for cancer and heart, kidney, liver and lung diseases. The organization also conducts diagnostic procedures for neuromuscular and Alzheimer's disease and HIV/AIDS. Carilion Hospice Services of New River Valley provides chaplain and nursing assistant services. It additionally organizes a variety of educational programs, as well as offers counseling, nursing and therapy services to its patients. Carilion Hospice Services of New River Valley maintains a location in Radford, Va.