Transitions is a pre hospice program offered through Hill Country Memorial

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Transitions

Transitions is a program with trained volunteers who offer free assistance, encouragement and support to patients who have been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness.

Unlike hospice patients, these individuals may still be receiving active treatment and may be responding positively. In fact, they may never become eligible for hospice care.

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	What services does Transitions offer?
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What services does Transitions offer?

Transitions strengthens patient care through better
coordination of medical services.

Too often, a patient is admitted into the hospital for pain or symptom control and then discharged...only to be re-admitted when the pain or symptoms re-appear. The cycle of admission and discharge repeats.

Transitions provides critical case management services to a physician or other health care provider who is following a discharged patient.

Emotional and non-medical support help
patients and their families

The program’s services vary depending on whether the patient lives
in his or her own home or in a nursing home.

If a patient lives at home, then hospice sends a home
service volunteer who offers:

> Friendship and visitation
> Help with writing and reading correspondence
> Running errands
> Food preparation
> Respite breaks for the family

If the patient lives in a nursing home,
then a nursing home volunteer offers:

> Friendship and visitation
> Help with writing and reading correspondence

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Contact information

For more information on Transitions, call 830-997-1335.

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Support Transitions

Financial gifts from the community, income from the Fredericksburg and Mason Hospice Thrift Shops, and volunteer workers are all what make Transitions and Hospice possible.
To learn more about how you can offer your support, visit the links below:
	Make a Donation
	Hospice Volunteers
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Hill Country Memorial Hospital (830) 997-4353
1020 South State Highway 16, P O Box 835

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624
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