Receives full licensure after being recognized by the Florida legislature as the State’s only teaching hospice in 2018
After helping patients and families in the MorseLifeHealth System community navigate the end-of-lifejourney, MorseLife Hospice & Palliative Care is expanding throughout Palm Beach County.
“As one of the nation’s preeminent providers of senior services for nearly 40 years, MorseLifeHealth System celebrates life, and that is never more evident than in our hospice and palliative care programs which serve people of any age,” said MorseLife President and CEO Keith A. Myers. “We respect the individual and family’s wishes, treating everyone with dignity in meaningful, positive ways.”
MorseLife Hospice & Palliative Care was recognized by the Florida legislature as the State’s only teaching hospice as Palm Beach Hospice by MorseLifein 2018.As a teaching facility, MorseLife Hospice stays at the forefront of new ideas and the creation of best practices. Three years ago, it launched its “Rest Assured” program which provides a compassionate caregiver or volunteer to be a reassuring presence during the final hours of anyone in its hospice care.
It is typical to contact hospice when a physician determines that an individual has a life prognosis of six months or less. However, a 2019 nationwide survey conducted byMorseLife found 40% of respondents incorrectly believed that the sole purpose of hospice is to sedate terminally ill patients to provide pain/anxiety relief.
MorseLifeHospice & Palliative Care offers pain and symptom management, medication, specialized equipment, psychology and spiritual support for the patient and family as well as grief support and ongoing bereavement and counseling.
The 2019 survey also found that 87% of Americans support the use of medical marijuana as a treatment option for terminally ill patients. MorseLife is the only senior living provider in Florida authorized to make cannabinoid-based therapies available among its numerous other treatment optionsin a variety of care settings.
MorseLife Hospice &Palliative Care provides services wherever an individual lives: at home, in a hospital, skilled nursing or assisted living venues.
For more information, please call (561) 868-6573 or visit morselife.org/hospice/.
About MorseLife Health System
MorseLife serves more than 3,600 seniors every day on its campus in West Palm Beach and through its community outreach programs. Founded in 1983, MorseLife is a provider of health care and residential services for seniors in Palm Beach County. A charitable, not-for-profit organization, its programs also include short term rehabilitation, long term care, independent and assisted living, memory care assisted living, hospice, home health care, care management, meals-on-wheels and PACE. Since its beginnings, MorseLife has built a reputation and tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion. For more information, visit morselife.org.
