Ohana Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc. has highly-trained, compassionate, and dedicated professionals who ensure to provide quality hospice and palliative services to enhance one’s life. We consist of:
Medical Social Worker – Medical Social Workers provide individual and family counseling to help meet the challenges created by a terminal illness. The social worker also facilitates family communication, arranges support for caregivers, and helps to find financial assistance.
Hospice Chaplain – Chaplains provide spiritual counseling for people of all faiths, planning services, and serve as a liaison between the family and clergy in the community.
Bereavement Counselor – Bereavement Counselors offer a variety of services to the patient’s family to help with the understanding of grief.
Hospice Volunteer – Hospice Volunteers are kind and compassionate individuals who support patients and loved ones by providing respite care and friendly visits.
Medical Director – The Hospice Medical Director collaborates with other members of the hospice team and the patient’s primary physician to help manage the patient’s discomfort and symptoms.
Attending Physician – The attending physician refers patients to hospice and remains the patient’s primary care physician while working as a member of the hospice team.
Skilled Nurse – Registered and Licensed Vocational Nurses are educated in palliative care and pain control. They work with patients to establish and maintain comfort as well as quality of life. Their responsibilities also include educating family members to provide better patient care for their loved ones.
Certified Nursing Assistant – Nursing Assistants are available to provide patients with bathing, personal, and comfort care.