Hospice Care

Helping people live meaningfully, comfortably, and as fully as possible.

Hospice is specialized care that helps people with serious illness live as fully and comfortably as possible. Hospice focuses on quality of life – not on curing an illness – and provides compassionate support for patients and their families from CVHHH’s team of experienced clinicians and caregivers.

Hospice care through CVHHH is patient-centered and guided by an individual’s unique wishes and goals. Our team provides expert medical treatment, pain and symptom management, and emotional and spiritual support to meet an individual’s needs, as well as those of their family and caregivers. Care is available to Central Vermonters wherever they reside – at home, in a skilled nursing facility, an assisted living facility, a hospice inpatient facility, or in the hospital.

The elements of hospice and end-of-life care

Hospice care is provided by an interdisciplinary team of experienced clinicians and caregivers trained to care for individuals and their families so they can make the most of each day together. We work together with a person, their family, and their physician to create a plan of care that meets the full range of a person’s medical and non-medical needs. Other care team members include:

• Medical Director
• Nurse Practitioner
• Registered Nurse
• Licensed Nursing Assistant
• Social Worker
• Interfaith Chaplain
• Trained Volunteers
• Bereavement Counselor

How to start care

Click here to Request Care

We serve residents in 23 towns in Central Vermont. If you live outside of our service area, please visit VNAs of Vermont to find the agency in your region. Care is most often initiated through a referral from your physician. You can ask to be referred to CVHHH specifically. Once your referral is processed, you will be contacted by a member of our intake team.

The Palliative Care Consultative Service does not require a physician referral to initiate care; patients can self-refer for this service.