How Hospice Can Help: Services and Support

How Hospice Can Help: Services and Support

Hospice provides emotional, physical and spiritual support and services for patients, family and friends faced with a life-limiting illness. Hospice services most often enable a patient to be at home or in an inpatient facility surrounded by family and friends. With the primary focus being to control the pain and manage the symptoms, Hospice services may include anything from providing medical services and equipment to transportation, daily activity assistance, speech or occupational therapy, dietary counseling, emotional support bereavement counseling and many others as needed by patient and family.

Hospice offers complete service, resources and support including:

24/7-day on-call assistance – Skilled nursing care – Pain management – Symptom control
Medical supplies – Medical social services – Caregiver respite – Homemaker assistance
In-home care – Inpatient facility care – Spiritual support – Bereavement services
Counseling, including dietary – Physical, occupational, respiratory and speech therapy

Hospice of New Jersey

  1. Hospice of New Jersey – Main Office – 400 Broadacres Drive – 4th Floor – Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003Phone: (973) 893-0818 – Fax: (973) 893-0828 – [email protected]
  2. Hospice of New Jersey – Toms River Office – 40 Bey Lea Road, Suite A202 – Toms River, NJ 08753Phone: (732) 818-3460 – Fax: (732) 818-3465 [email protected]
  3. Inpatient Unit at St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital – 224 Hamburg Turnpike – Wayne, NJ 07470Phone: (973) 956-3680 – Fax: (973) 389-4054 [email protected]

Other Hospice Contact Information

  1. Atlantic Home Care & Hospice, 33 Bleeker St., Millburn, (973) 379-8440; www.atlantichealth.org/cons/ services/hospice.
  2. Barbara Cheung Memorial Hospice at Roosevelt Care Center, 1 Roosevelt Drive, Edison, (732) 321-6800, Ext. 8.
  3. Care Alternatives Hospice, 70 Jackson Drive, Cranford, (908) 931-9080.
  4. Center for Hope Hospice & Palliative Care, 176 Hussa St., Linden, (908) 486-0700;
    www.centerforhope.com.
  5. Community Visiting Nurse Association’s Community Care Hospice, 586 E. Main St., Bridgewater, (908) 725-9355.
  6. Compassionate Care Hospice, 66 Mount Prospect Ave., Clifton, (973) 916-1400; www.compassionate-care. com
  7. Haven Hospice, affiliated with JFK Medical Center and Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center, 65 James St., Edison, (732) 321-7769; www.solarish.org.
  8. Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Brodacres Drive, Bloomfield, (973) 893-0818; www.hospicenj.com.
  9. Hunterdon Hospice, 2100 Wescott Drive, Flemington. (908) 788-6600; www.hunterdon
    healthcare.org.
  10. New Jersey Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 175 Glenside Ave., Scotch Plains, (908) 233-0060.
  11. Princeton Homecare Services – Hospice Program, 208 Bunn Drive, Princeton, affiliated with the Princeton Healthcare System. (609) 497-4900; www.phcs.org.
  12. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway Hospice, 865 Stone St., Rahway, (732) 499-6169; www.rwjuhr.com.
  13. St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, 95 Old Short Hills Road, West Orange, (973) 379-2200; www.sbhc.com/ hospitals/hospice.
  14. Trinity Hospice, 354 Union Ave., Elizabeth, (908) 255-8986; www.vnss.com.
  15. Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Hospice Program, serving Middlesex and Monmouth counties, 1100 Wayside Road, Tinton Falls, (800) 862-3330.
  16. Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey Hospice, 38 Elm St., Morristown, (973) 539-1216.
  17. Somerset Hills Hospice, Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills, 12 Olcott Ave., Bernardsville, (908) 766-0180; www.visitingnurse.org (also operates Somerset Medical Center