Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care

Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care is a non-profit health care organization founded in 1980. It is located in Salisbury, Maryland and serves Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester counties. Its special mission as a hospice is to serve the needs of the terminally ill in their own homes throughout the four lower shore counties. In addition to its hospice program, Coastal Hospice also provides palliative care, or medical care for managing pain and other symptoms of cancer. Both programs send visiting professional nurses, counselors, home health aides and volunteers to patients. Working with the patient’s own physician as a team, these health care workers strive to help patients live fully and as pain-free as possible. Charitable contributions and donations support the volunteer program and help to offset costs of professional services for those who need help but cannot pay either privately or by insurance.^[1]

In 2010 Coastal Hospice celebrated its 30th anniversary.^[2]

Coastal Hospice at the Lake

Coastal Hospice at the Lake opened in 2004. Coastal Hospice at the Lake is a 14-bed inpatient facility in Salisbury, Maryland. The center's staff addresses not only medical and nursing care for patients facing advanced illnesses, but also emotional and spiritual support for patients and their loved ones.^[3] Some special features of Coastal Hospice at the Lake include:

• personalized care addressing the unique medical, spiritual, physical and emotional concerns of each patient
• 24-hour a day staffing by medical professionals including physicians, nurses and hospice aides
• six private patient rooms and eight semi-private patient rooms
• accommodation for family members
• homelife features including space where children can play, family kitchen, garden room and walkways

Coastal Hospice at the Ocean

In September 2009 Coastal Hospice opened a new outreach center called Coastal Hospice at the Ocean. The objective of this center is to better help meet the needs of the bereaved and hospice volunteers in Worcester County, Maryland. The outreach center offers education and trainings for volunteers, group meetings for the bereaved, along with resources and support for family members in the community who are coping with life-limiting illness or the loss of a loved one.^[4]

Friends of Coastal Hospice

For more than 25 years Friends of Coastal Hospice has been sponsoring and organizing fundraising events to raise money for Coastal Hospice.^[5]

Events

Coastal Hospice has numerous fundraising events throughout the year.

• Tim Kennard River Run
• A Taste of Finer Things
• Geranium Sale
• Purnell-Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament-held at Salisbury University
• Blues on the Bay

Notes

1. ^ "Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care: Focusing on Comfort and Quality of Life." Metropolitan Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
2. ^ Gomez, Alyana. (7 May 2010). "Hospice celebrates 30 years of helping" The Daily Times
3. ^ Troxell, Bonnie. ( 2 April 2004). "Coastal Hospice." The Daily Times.
4. ^ Polk, Charlene. (25 May 2009). "Coastal Hospice to open facility in Worcester." The Daily Times.
5. ^ http://www.coastalhospice.org/friends-coastal-hospice

External links

• Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care
• Friends of Coastal Hospice on Facebook