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Home Health and Hospice

Home health care provides treatment for an illness or injury and helps our patients regain their independence. Help is available whether our patient is returning home from a hospital stay, managing a serious or chronic disease, or dealing with multiple diagnoses. Our goal is to help our patients recover and regain their independence while staying safe and healthy at home—where they want to be.

Hospice provides comfort and support services for those facing the end of life. We serve southeastern Ohio and three counties in West Virginia. Patients are generally eligible for hospice care if their provider has determined that they are in their final six months of life.

Conditions We Treat

• Cancer
• Chronic kidney disease
• Dementia
• Diabetes
• Heart conditions
• Major infection
• Respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia
• Stroke

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Services We Offer

• Behavioral health nursing
• Home health aide
• Medical social work
• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy
• Skilled nursing
• Speech therapy

Journey Hospice

Journey Hospice has a reputation for providing superior care. Because we are a small non-profit program, our care is individualized. No matter where our patient lives, our nurses can respond to their needs within an hour. Our Hospice Medical Director is fully dedicated to palliative and hospice medicine.

All of our hospice registered nurses (RNs) are certified hospice and palliative nurses. Nurses must pass a board exam to receive this certification. To maintain their certification nurses must continue to meet educational requirements and retest. Providing excellent and expert care to our end-of-life patients and their families is what we strive to do.

Marietta

We are the only Memorial Health System affiliated Home Health and Hospice agency which gives us privileges and continuity of care unlike any other agency in the area. Because of the partnership, we are able to use a multi-disciplinary approach to hospice care that includes outstanding communication and planning with our affiliated hospitals and clinics.

We also offer specialty programs that are unique to our agency. This includes our newly developed and comprehensive End-Stage Dementia program with a specialized clinician and a non-pharmaceutical approach to those suffering from the symptoms of varying dementias. We also offer the Trees in Memory program. Lastly, as a We Honor Veterans Partner we offer many specializations in end-of-life care for veterans. In addition to our distinctive programs, Marietta Hospice, An Amedisys Partner, provides inpatient services and a well-respected local team of attending physicians who oversee patient care.

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Why Choose Us

Bereavement Program for Families

Our Hospice team offers a robust bereavement program with continued care through phone calls, mailers, counseling, grief support groups, and memorial services. All of this is part of the Medicare benefit and is zero cost to family members after the passing of their loved one.

Award-Winning Care, Close to Home

We were selected by Modern Healthcare as “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” for the second consecutive year in 2021-2022. Amedisys care centers must meet rigorous quality standards. According to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, Amedisys Hospice agencies exceed the national average in all 9 out of 9 Hospice Item Set scores that CMS uses to measure hospice equality. We are one of the largest and most trusted in-home care providers in the U.S. We’ve been serving patients and families since 1982, providing expert care to over 415,00 patients each year.

Compassionate Patient-Centered Care

We focus on providing patient/family-centered care. Our home health and hospice teams are committed to providing the latest effective treatment options for each patient we see. We involve patients and families at each step of the care process, and always keep them informed of what’s happening with their health care plan.

Coordinated Care with Specialty Providers

When needed, our hospice and home health teams can coordinate care with other specialty providers across the Memorial Health System network. We work to streamline each patient’s care so they can focus on their well-being, instead of spending lots of time coordinating medical appointments and specialists.

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