Hospice is a compassionate approach to care whose goal is to help people with serious illness live life fully, maintain their dignity and keep control over their lives.  Hospice provides medical care, emotional and spiritual support to people and their families facing life-limiting illness in homes, hospitals, adult facilities, and nursing homes.

Although there are patients with a diagnosis of cancer being served, Bright Horizon Hospice cares for patients with any life-limiting illness.  Among other illnesses our patients have had are cardiac and respiratory diseases, renal disease, and neurological illness including Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, AIDS, Cirrhosis, and others.

This is the story of one nurse’s encounter with a family where she helps clear up some misconceptions about what hospice is and does.