Hospice services are available to patients of all ages, incomes, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who:
 

1. Have a life-limiting illness. Life-limiting illnesses include cancer, pulmonary disease, heart disease, renal failure, Alzheimer’s disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), AIDS, stroke/coma, etc.;
 

2. Have a prognosis of six months or less. Care continues beyond six months if the patient’s physician continues to certify a six-month prognosis; and
 

3. Have decided that the primary goal of treatment is no longer cure but rather comfort.
Comfort, at New England Hospice, takes the form of palliative care. The purpose of palliative care is to prevent or lessen the severity of Pain and other symptoms and to achieve the best quality of life for people dying or suffering from a life-limiting disease. People with a life-limiting disease may benefit from palliative care from the time they are told they have the disease; while receiving treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation, Phase 1 clinical trials or blood transfusions; and especially near the end of life.
New England Hospice provides hospice services regardless of the ability to pay.

AVAILABILITY

New England Hospice is committed to making hospice services available to everyone in the community who wants or needs them based on substantiated need and within available resources.

New England Hospice admits patients 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.