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Comfort, Compassion and Personalized Hospice Care 
If you are seeking care that enhances quality at the end of life and reside in our five-county service area near Quitman, Presbyterian Hospice and Palliative Care Center can help. Our highly trained hospice care providers are here to support and care for you in the last phases of life-limiting illness. Our commitment to you is absolute: neither you nor your loved ones will travel this journey alone.
We promise to:
- Respect your personal choices and desires;
- Focus on comfort care rather than curative measures; and
- Treat you as a whole person and attend to your entire family.
- Registered nurse services
- Certified nursing assistant visits
- Care coordinated by your own physician
- Counseling and emotional support
- Medications and medical supplies related to the life-limiting condition
- Inpatient care for periods of crisis
- Respite care to relieve your care giver
- Routine home care delivered to your residence
- Physical, speech and occupational therapies
- Dietary counseling
- Volunteer services
- 24 hours, 7 days a week on-call service
Criteria for Presbyterian Hospice Care
- Diagnosis of a life-limiting illness with a life expectancy of less than six months;
- Knowledge of the diagnosis by you and your family;
- Approval by your attending physician for admission to hospice care; and
- Residency within the service area, which includes the following counties: Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes and Thomas.
Who Pays for Hospice Care?
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Private insurance
- Private payment
Services are provided to all persons who meet our admissions criteria, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical disability, financial status or ability to pay.
"Hospice was a godsend for me. The staff knew how to make my husband comfortable? and how to make things easier for me."Hospice Family Member
