HOSPICARE & PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES - PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES | HOSPICARE & PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES
172 East King Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
Eligibility
People dealing with chronic and advanced illness and needing extra coaching and care.
(607) 272-0212
Voice
Websitehttps://www.hospicare.org
Email[email protected]
Fees
Free to Tompkins and Cortland County residents
Service area
Tompkins County, New York
Relief from symptoms, pain and stress of serious illness, regardless of diagnosis, for individuals and their families:with chronic and advanced illness, such as cancer, stroke, cardiac disease or Alzheimer's, and needing extra coaching and carereceiving treatment, such as radiation, chemotherapy or dialysis, for serious medical conditionfacing increasingly difficult day-to-day life because of serious illness
Last assured
03/11/2026
Providing organization
HOSPICARE & PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES
Hospicare & Palliative Care Services serves residents of Tompkins and Cortland counties.Palliative care program provides specialized medical care that focuses on relieving symptoms and stress at any stage of a serious illness. The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Palliative care is provided by a specially-trained team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists who work together with a patient's other doctors to provide an extra layer of support. makes people comfortable in the last six months of their lives services are provided in homes, in acute and chronic care facilities, and at agency six-bed residence. Following a patient's death, supporting the family with 13 months of bereavement services. bereavement support services to anyone in our service area who is grieving the death of a loved one, whether or not they died on hospice.