Why choose Home Hospice? Home
Hospice is our own community based non-profit charitable
organization. Home Hospice has diligently served our friends and
neighbors of Cooke, Grayson and western Fannin Counties for over
15 years. We have earned the confidence of the community. There
are now several licensed hospices in the area. Home Hospice
remains the Hospice of choice for those who are well informed.
Philosophy
Home Hospice cares for any patient who qualifies for
hospice care, regardless of reimbursement availability. The most
indigent patient receives the same high quality level of care as
the most affluent. Non-profits, such as Home Hospice, use funds
generated through reimbursement and donations to expand community
service. Home Hospice sets the plan of care according to patient
and family needs.
Mission Based
A mission is defined as a body of people engaged in an
activity to perform a service. Home Hospice's primary goal - our
only driving goal -- is to provide the highest quality of care
available for terminally ill persons in our communities. We have
no shareholders or corporate executives determining the level of
care we can provide depending on the bottom line. We are
the best when caring matters most. We were created by
and answer to the caring community we serve. Our friends and
neighbors care a great deal about what we do. The esteem in which
the community holds Home Hospice is evidenced by the generosity of community
organizations, friends, and relatives of patients.
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Our Staff Competent, professional, loving are words which best describe the Home Hospice staff. Our staff has been carefully selected, well educated and oriented to our mission and continue to grow through regular educational opportunities. The best part is that they STAY! The low staff turnover is a blessing. Our staff come to serve the patients and families and they stay because the depth of service allows them to reach beyond themselves and achieve professional service goals. |
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Many of our staff have been honored by the Texas New Mexico Hospice Organization in past years:
- Donna Johnson - Social Worker of the Year 2002
- Katie Engle - Administrative Assistant of the Year 2001
- Marty Barr - Executive Director of the Year 2001
- Sherry Little - Volunteer Coordinator of the Year 2003
- Janice Bryant - Administrator of the Year 1996
- Debbie Fulton - Patient Care Coordinator of the Year 1999
- Evelyn Watson - Bereavement Coordinator of the Year 2003
- Betty Hempkins - Volunteer of the Year 2003
| Leadership The leadership is impressive. Members of our Board of Directors and staff have degrees in healthcare, medicine, nursing, law, finance, community health, theology, education, business administration and a diversity that truly represents the communities we serve. Others come with a natural innate sense of caring for their fellow man. They have developed that gift with hours of community service, complex volunteering tasks, basic family and church experiences. Can you imagine the depth of experience, maturity and operational knowledge this group offers? |
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Stewardship
Being a steward means being a knowledgeable and wise
guardian of all energies and resources. It means having a blue
chair, an orange chair and a brown chair in the office. It means
having a "slumber party" of staff members in the same
hotel room for educational seminars. It means cleaning your own
gutters and rolling up your sleeves to fix the commode. It means
fixing a donated wheelchair, helping to pick up a fallen patient,
working with the social service in the community. It means being
able to say, "Yes" when there are scores of people with
very real needs. Effective pain management, working with
pharmacists for custom medications and timely admittance after
referral -- all have been integral to Home Hospice for many
years. Home Hospice is very adept in business matters. We work
together with other non-profit hospices on such things as
activity based costing, time studies, industry benchmarking,
group purchasing, demographic analysis, cost reduction programs,
new production service programs, collaborative training,
satellite down link programming to reduce educational travel,
student and graduate student internships, salary surveys, and
many more innovations. Stewardship means being the best
when caring matters most and doing it with your head,
hands and your heart, every day of the week, every week of the
year.
Family Comments:
"You were there when we needed you every
time." "...above and beyond all expectations."
"Absolutely the best care of its kind!" "I'd never
make it without them, they have been wonderful!" "Thank
you for the tender, loving care you gave...with your help we were
able to keep him at home and that means so much." "Mere
words can never express my appreciation for the loving care that
you gave my husband, and for all the help that you gave to the
both of us. Perhaps one day I can repay in some measure. You are
all very special people."
