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End-of-Life Care
Bayles Center for Hospice and Palliative Care at Holy Cross Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
A Trinity Continuing Care Services Facility

The Bayles Center is designed to meet the unique needs of patients with terminal or life-threatening illnesses when being at home is not the preferred method.

Those instances may include:

  • Acute pain and symptom management when the only other alternative would be hospitalization
  • Patients in their last days of life
  • Patients who are transitioning from hospital to home whose conditions or caregiving situation is not yet stable enough to go home or
  • Hospice patients at home whose caregivers need respite care

The Bayles Center provides:

  • Interdisciplinary inpatient care
  • Comfort needs assessment and symptom management
  • Identification of the patient/family’s physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs
  • Support and instruction for the patient and family in meeting identified needs
  • Coordination of all patient/family services
  • Goal-setting, interventions and response to problems
  • Development of optimal coping strategies
  • Access to community resources, while making the most effective use of the health care system
  • Preparation for a dignified death

Services include:

  • Skilled nursing: RNs assess manage and provide instruction for a wide range of conditions and symptoms. All of our nurses have advanced training in pain control and symptom management.
  • Social work: Medical social workers provide planning, counseling and support for patients and families in dealing with the social, emotional, financial and practical needs they may encounter.
  • Certified personal care aides: Our aides provide personal care assistance such as bathing; skin, hair and nail care; bed-making; and toileting.
  • Pastoral care: Representatives provide spiritual support to our patients and their families. Spiritual support is available for all religions affiliations.
  • Volunteers: Specially trained in hospice, our volunteers work with the professional staff to provide practical assistance, respite and support to patients and their families.
  • Bereavement support: Individual and group bereavement support is available to anyone experiencing grief due to the loss of a loved one.

We accept Medicare and Medicaid as well as most other insurance plans. Our hospice program is state licensed, Medicare certified and Joint Commission accredited.

Find out more about Holy Cross Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, the facility through which Bayles Center delivers its hospice and palliative care program.
For more information, call 301.754.7740.

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