Support

It’s All About Support
Hospice care is as unique as the individual patients who come to us in search of this form of support and comfort. It’s focused on making the patient comfortable, while helping families cope with a difficult time of impending loss.

Here are some of the unique features of the service we offer:

• It’s palliative care, meaning we focus on providing comfort, rather than a cure.
• Our attention is focused on the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of both patient and family. 
• Care is provided in the most comforting and supporting atmosphere, whether that be at home, a nursing facility or our inpatient center.
• An entire interdisciplinary team of compassionate professionals work together to provide care, including each patient's physician, the hospice medical director, registered nurse, social worker, chaplain, home health aide and specially-trained volunteers.
• Bereavement support is provided to each family following the death of their loved one.

In fact, St. Elizabeth Hospice offers a full array of support services for families of our hospice patients. You can contact our bereavement coordinator  to arrange a consultation by phone (859) 301-4611 or by email, or you may also wish to take part in one of the support groups listed below:

• Journey Through Grief - This six-week class meets Monday evenings at the Hospice Center in Edgewood and repeats throughout the year. It is designed for adults who have experienced the death of a loved one. The group helps participants better understand the grief process in a mutually supportive environment.
• Journey Through Grief: Grant County – JTG Grant County meets twice a month on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month.  One meeting is for social interaction and meets at a local restaurant in Dry Ridge.  The other meeting is a traditional support group which meets at the Crittenden Baptist Association Office in Williamstown. Both groups meet at 10:30 a.m.
• Adult Daughters’ Journey Through Grief – This eight-week support group focuses on the unique needs of adult daughters after the death of a parent.  This series meets at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church on Wednesday evenings and is repeated throughout the year.
• Men's Breakfast Clubs – For men who have experienced the death of their wife, we offer two different groups for men to come together in an informal setting.  One group is for retirement-aged men and meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m.  The other is for working-aged men and meets on the 3rd Friday of each month at 7:00 a.m.  The aim of both is to promote support through social connection.
• HOPE: Helping Overwhelmed Parents Endure – This support group is designed for parents who have experienced the death of a child of any age by any cause. Participants meet on the second Monday of each month from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. at the Hospice Center, 483 South Loop Dr., Edgewood, KY.
• STARS: Grief Support for Kids - This program is for school-aged children and their caregivers who have experienced the death of a loved one. Participants meet every other Tuesday evening throughout the school year at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Click here for information or registration - This six-week class meets Monday evenings at the Hospice Center in Edgewood and repeats throughout the year. It is designed for adults who have experienced the death of a loved one. The group helps participants better understand the grief process in a mutually supportive environment.
  STARS will hold its annual Summer Day Camp on Wednesday, July 7, from 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at Town & Country Sports Complex, 1018 Town Drive in Wilder, KY. Click here for information.

All groups provided by St. Elizabeth Hospice are open to the public and are not limited to those having received hospice care.

For More Information About Hospice Care:  
NHPCO- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization