Congratulations to HomeHealth Visiting Nurses, which received a $7000 grant from the Hospice Fund of the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) to support their efforts to increase quality health care for Maine residents facing life-threatening illness or end-state chronic disease.
The money will allow HomeHealth Visiting Nurses to plan and implement palliative care nurse training, and offer palliative care outreach education workshops to students in nursing programs and practicing healthcare professionals around Maine.
Palliative care services focus on reducing the severity of disease symptoms and on promoting effective pain management. HomeHalth Visiting Nurses pallaitive care also focuses on matching treatment plans with patient/family goals, and on coordinating home healthcare with physicians. Palliative care patients don’t need to have a terminal diagnosis and they often are still receiving curative treatments.
HomeHealth Visiting Nurses provides home-based care for approximately 40,000 adults and children in Cumberland, York and southern Oxford Counties. Its mission is to help people be as healthy and independent as possible at home and in the community. You can find more information on the HomeHealth Visiting Nurses website or by calling 1-800-660-4867.