The SOMC Hospice Center
SOMC East Campus
2201 25th Street
Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
(740) 356-2600
The SOMC Hospice Center provides a home away from home for terminally ill patients who need inpatient care.
SOMC Hospice is a medically directed supportive service for patients with a life limiting illness and their families. The goal of our program is to provide a continuation of care, which offers patients choices for enhancing the opportunities for completing their lives with dignity, purpose and peace. Focusing on home care, the Hospice staff works with both patients and family members to solve the problems associated with life limiting illness.
The SOMC Hospice Center is specifically designed to help staff members take care of seriously ill patients in an efficient manner, yet appear non-institutional and comforting to those entering as patients or as their caregivers.
Features:
- Twelve medically supervised private patient suites. Each includes a family room, bedroom, private bathroom and other accommodations to provide a home-like environment for patients and families
- A community kitchen, complete with microwave, stove and refrigerator, available 24-hour a day for family members and their guests
- A serenity room to provide patients and family members with a quiet atmosphere for relaxation
- Family gathering area, complete with fireplace, television and reading area
- A meditation garden to provide a calm, natural environment for conversation and reflection
- Patient and family library
- Private patio
- Children’s play room
Who is eligible for care?
The patient who has a terminal disease in advanced stages and needs supportive treatment and care. This may include those with end-stage cancers affecting the lungs, kidneys or heart, or neurological or Alzheimer’s diseases. Those in long-term care facilities may also be eligible.
The patient who is no longer undergoing curative treatment. Hospice care should be considered when treatment begins to shift from curative interventions to symptom management.
The patient with a life expectancy of months instead of years. Referral early in the terminal phase enables Hospice to provide the most supportive, personal environment for the patient and family.
The patient with a primary caregiver available for the patient’s comfort and safety at home. A patient who is able to provide self-care at the time of referral may be accepted for Hospice care provided that arrangements can be made for future needs.
Those who reside in Scioto, Pike, Jackson, Adams and Lawrence counties, near their borders, or is a resident of a contracted nursing home.
The patient and family who are aware of
the diagnosis and accept the hospice philosophy of care.
Patients are accepted regardless of age, race, color, creed, national origin, handicap or ability to pay.
Commemorative Bricks
Show your support of the SOMC Hospice Center by donating $100 for a commemorative brick. These bricks can be imprinted with your name, a name of someone you would like to memorialize, or a special message. All purchased bricks will be used in the garden area outside the new SOMC Hospice Center. To order your brick, please download and complete this form, or call (740) 356-2674
