Hospice Care

Hospice Care

Our Hospice Care Partnership

Lima Memorial offers inpatient hospice care in partnership with Putnam County Hospice. Hospital staff and hospice professionals work together during our patients' stay to provide the best care possible. Hospital staff members are here to ensure that our patients' primary care needs are met, while the hospice nurse will visit daily to help reduce symptoms and provide support.

Why Choose Hospice?

Hospice serves as an alternative choice of care giving when a physical cure is no longer possible. Hospice care at Lima Memorial is provided when:

  • Patients are currently in the hospital but cannot be discharged
  • Returning home is not possible
  • Symptoms cannot be managed effectively from home

Our Focus

While in our care, our patients' wishes and the wishes of those close to them figure prominently in all decisions. It is our goal to allow our patients to spend their last days in comfort while making independent decisions.

Our team of compassionate professionals will address our patients' physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs. We provide services such as pain management and symptom management.

Hospice care neither hastens death nor prolongs life. Care beyond a cure is our focus.

Your Hospice Journey

Our patients' stay in hospice care through our Hospice Care Partnership is typically short term - days not weeks. The hospice care giver and the hospital staff will keep our patients' and their family aware of all discharge planning.

About Putman County Hospice

Putnam County Hospice was established in 1996 with the dream of allowing our residents to spend their last days at home among the people and things that they love. Hospice recognizes the unique and individual needs of the terminally ill patient and their family.

Our goal is to provide comfortable care, fostering an atmosphere in which an individual can retain personal freedom and the ability to make independent decisions. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens death nor prolongs life. It allows one to live each day fully and as alert and pain free as possible. We encourage the celebration of life every day.

For more information about Lima Memorial's Hospice Care call 419-228-3335 or Putnam County Hospice at 419.523.4449.