Freda H. Gordon Hospice
Freda H. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care, also known as Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater (HPCT), offers hospice care as a family-centered team approach. This appraoch includes interdisciplinary teams of a doctor, nurse, social worker, counselor, chaplain, home health aide and trained volunteers. They work together focusing on the dying person’s needs—physical, psychological, social and spiritual. Their approach is to help keep the person as pain- and symptom-free as possible while offering spiritual and compassionate counseling to the patient and family members. Care is provided in different settings including long term care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities or private residences. The Fellow participates in IDG conferences and home visits with the ID team.