Regency SouthernCare Hospice has several locations in Georgia, including Metro Atlanta, Dalton, and a main office in Augusta at 2924 Professional Parkway, serving a 50-mile radius around Augusta. This place offers hospice and palliative care for people in the final stages of life, focusing on physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and does so as a faith-based organization. They have a care team made up of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, hospice aides, and volunteers who coordinate with patients' doctors and families to make sure needs are met, and they provide bereavement care and grief counseling up to 13 months after someone passes away.
This facility provides care for adults and also has pediatric services and specialized programs for veterans, as well as Cancer Comfort Care, Cardiac Comfort Care, and Dementia Comfort Care. There's a dedicated inpatient facility, and staff help with activities of daily living, medication, bathing, dressing, transfers, and 24-hour supervision. There are community features like furnished rooms, housekeeping, laundry, communal dining with all-day meal options that consider allergies and diabetes, movie nights, sponsored activities, a garden, walking paths, and accessible transportation and parking.
Families caring for someone with a life-limiting illness can get respite care, while those dealing with loss can attend community bereavement programs. Regency SouthernCare Hospice helps with both assisted living and non-ambulatory care through evidence-based, personalized support, and works with internal medicine practitioners, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts. Volunteers take on jobs like companionship or office work, and the team helps people understand hospice care through informational sessions. The organization uses specialty names for some of its medical and palliative programs such as Illumia Health and Empatia Palliative Care, and is part of the Kindred at Home/CURO Health Services network. They serve patients, families, caregivers, social workers, and physicians, and provide a safe, supportive, and comprehensive care environment. Regency SouthernCare Hospice has a high community rating and follows quality standards, trying to offer comfort, dignity, and respect at the end of life. Those interested can visit the website for more details.