| Last updated on January 14, 2008 |
A person faced with a life-limiting illness deserves to live the rest of life fully, comfortably and with dignity. United Hospice aim is to achieve that goal by providing dedicated quality holistic care, treating the physical, social and spiritual being as the patient approaches his or her final days.
Description:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Hospice as "a house of rest and entertainment for pilgrims, travelers or strangers for the destitute or the sick." The hospice philosophy centers on providing palliative and holistic medical care for those patients with less than six months to live. When a patient elects hospice, that patient ceases curative treatment that would be futile and starts palliative care of pain and symptoms. The hospice philosophy centers on providing relieve of the pain associated with a particular illness. In addition, hospice seeks to provide holistic care, treating not only the body, but also the spirit, mind, and soul - helping family members as well.
When a person nears the end of life, he or she deserves to live the rest of their life, fully comfortably, and with dignity. Toward this goal, the United Hospice team provides dedicated quality holistic care, treating the physical, social, and spiritual being as the patient approaches his or her final days.
Comfort, care and support
Emotional care, support, and closure
Personal and spiritual peace
Self-respect
The fullness of and respect for life
History:
Since 1969, UHS-Pruitt Corporation, through its affiliates, has been providing professional healthcare services throughout the Southeast. With our beginnings as the Toccoa Nursing Center in Toccoa, Georgia; we have grown to over 100 affiliated locations in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. But through it all, the focus has always been and will continue to be - quality. Quality care, quality programs, quality services and quality people.
Through our family of providers, UHS-Pruitt Corporation furnish skilled nursing center services, assisted living center services, long-term pharmacy services, home care and home health services, nutritional programs, clinical consulting services, in-home and inpatient hospice services, medical supply services, adult day care services, rehabilitation services, commercial insurance care management programs and community care programs. UHS-Pruitt Corporation affiliates are collectively one of the largest providers for long-term veterans' services in the Southeast.
With nearly 8,000 employees, these providers touch the lives of more than 14,000 patients, residents and clients daily.
United Hospice was established in 1993 and is the largest provider of hospice services in the State of Georgia. We are located throughout Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina including an inpatient facility in Duluth, Georgia, furnishing comfort, care and support, closure, personal and spiritual peace, self-respect and respect for fullness of life. The United Hospice of Cobb office services Cobb, Douglas, Heard, Carroll, Cherokee, Paulding, and Haralson Counties
Contact people:
Office fax number: (770) 850-8699
Address:
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1640 Powers Ferry Road Buiding 3 Suite 100
Mareitta, GA 30067
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Web Site: http://www.united-hospice.com/
Directions:
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1. Take I-75 N
2. Take exit #260/WINDY HILL RD/SMYRNA turn right onto WINDY HILL RD SE toward WINDY HILL RD-EAST
3. Turn LEFT on POWERS FERRY RD SE
4. Arrive at 1640 POWERS FERRY RD SE, MARIETTA
5. Turn. . . (more)
Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Marta Arts Canter Station to Cobb Transit Route 10
Nearest Bus Stop: Cobb Transit Route 50, Stop at the Governors Rifge Location minute walk |
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