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Who Cares for Your Loved One?

Our caregivers and volunteers are specially educated to offer medical care and support to you and your loved one

If you and your loved one decide it’s time for hospice care, take comfort in knowing our well-educated and experienced team will help meet all of your needs. We partner with your loved one’s physician to ensure you get the best physical, social, spiritual and emotional support – whether you receive care in the comfort of your home or in our inpatient unit. Our team includes:

Specially educated hospice nurses with extensive experience in dealing with end-of-life issues and educating family members how they can care for their loved ones

Home health aides who help bathe and dress your loved one and provide companionship.

Social workers who connect you and your loved one with services, such as counseling, emotional support, physical care, transportation and financial and community resources. They also help coordinate care between members of your hospice team.

Hospice chaplains who offer you and your loved one spiritual counseling.

Specialized volunteers who help with grocery shopping, deliver prescriptions, read the newspaper or sit and chat with your loved one, help with light household tasks and provide you much-needed breaks.

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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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