Our Promise To You

Our patients have the right to respect and dignity, quality care, privacy, participation in decision-making and access to financial information. We promise to help our patients enjoy life to its fullest by offering comprehensive support and by allowing patients to define their own care. All choices and decisions are collaborative efforts.

The patients’ caregivers and family members will learn how to provide daily care for their loved ones. Willamette Valley Hospice supports the work of family and friends by providing…

• Registered nurses are available 24 hours a day.
• Respite volunteers who can take over caregiving temporarily.
• Home health aides to help with personal care and light housekeeping.
• Counselors for family members during illness and bereavement support.
• Special bereavement support for younger family members.

Opinion Column - Statesman Journal - Published on May 1, 2007

Willamette Valley Hospice a Blessing to Many

(Reprinted with permission of the Statesman Journal)

The Statesman Journal article on April 14, "Hospice Harmony," brings back powerful emotions.  My father, David "Punch" Worthington of Keizer, taught me nature and music are foods for the soul.  He embraced all musicals flavors.

As the door was slowly closing to his incredible life, my father treasured Jessica's calming, impassioned house calls and her therapy via harmonic sounds and music. 

Based on my experience, Willamette Valley Hospice provides amazing tranquility services to the terminally ill.

Another example:  My father embraced the spirituality of Native American Indians.  Through Hospice we were able to contact an Indian Spiritualist/Shaman, Bob-Tom, who on a one-day notice arrived at my father's home.  He burned sage, sang Indian songs about nature and the cycle of Life and our collective ancestry.  This brought a sense of final serenity to my father and readied him for the Next Great Adventure.  Twenty-four hours after this ceremony, my father passed, peacefully.

Thank you Jessica and Shaman Bob-Tom.  Thank you, Willamette Valley Hospice.  You bring a smile to the souls you escort including the friends and families of the departed.  Our society has a difficult time dealing with death.  Your work enriches the inevitable process which every single one of us shall one day face.

~~~ David A. Worthington, Costa Mesa, Calif.

Our Comfort-Based Care Comes To You

The patient's caregiver and their family members will learn how to provide the daily care for their loved one. Hospice care is available wherever you call home, including nursing homes, rest homes and assisted living facilities. Willamette Valley Hospice provides expert physical/medical care, as well as emotional and spiritual support, for residents of facilities who have a life-limiting illness.

We support the care given by family and friends with:

• Board-Certified physicians on staff to supervise and recommend best care options
• Registered nurses available for calls or visits 24 hours a day
• Comfort-care, pain and symptom management
• Short-term respite stays in facilities
• Respite volunteers help caregivers take breaks or breathers from care.
• Home health aides to help with personal care and light housekeeping
• Social workers to provide emotional support for patients and family members during illness, progression of disease and bereavement support
• Counselors to provide emotional support to family members following death
• Medications related to the life limiting illness
• Durable medical equipment including oxygen and medical supplies related to the terminal illness
• Hospitalization and transportation, if needed for acute symptom management
• Spiritual support when requested