OUR SERVICE
We are here for you
- delivered in your home
- holistic
- compassionate
- innovative and
- flexible.
- promote comfort
- improve quality of life
- support the patient
- support family, carers and friends involved in providing care.
- providing a supportive 24-hour service
- providing a respectful compassionate service that guides but does not take over
- enriching the quality of living and dying through personalised home-based care
- helping patients of all ages to live well in their home
- providing holistic care that addresses physical, emotional, social, cultural or spiritual needs
- taking time to get to know what the patient and their family need to help them live, die and grieve well
- sharing information, knowledge and care with the patient, their carers, families and other health care providers.
- specialist palliative care nurses
- supportive care workers
- patient and family support volunteers.
- Ballarat
- Hepburn
- northern end of Golden Plains and
- western end of Moorabool Shires.
We
- usually care for approximately 200 registered patients
- provide bereavement support to the carers of our patients
- provide a free equipment loan service for our patients (wheelchairs, lift recliners, commodes and other personal items)
- care for palliative patients of all ages; helping to fulfil their wishes to die at home
- pride ourselves on making a difference to the people we care for.