Hospice is a team-oriented program to provide support for those who have a terminal illness. It involves expert medical care, pain management, emotional and spiritual support tailored to the patient’s/family’s needs and wishes. In addition to medical staff, the hospice team includes a social worker, spiritual care coordinator and volunteers—all working together to ensure the patient’s needs are being met.

Hospice care improves comfort and increases peace of mind for patients and their families.

  • Hospice focuses on caring, not curing
  • Hospice care also is provided in hospitals and long-term care residences
  • Hospice services are available to people of any age
  • Hospice care is covered under Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurance plans, HMOs and other managed care organizations

Anyone can call to ask about hospice services. Hospice staff will answer your questions and work with your physician to determine whether hospice service is appropriate.

Hospice helps add meaning to life

When a person becomes a hospice patient, they have the opportunity not only to plan for their own death, but also to decide how to live their remaining time in a meaningful way. The patient and the family are given the time and space to share memories, express love, spend special time together and fulfill wishes and dreams for one another. Being under hospice care encourages the patient and family to slow down, to take the time to assess their own values and faith. This can help families cope with the ongoing process of loss and grief in a healthy way. When given hospice support at end-of-life, patients and families share comfort, love and healing as they say goodbye. Hospice is a program that helps patients and families live together in fullness and bid goodbye with dignity and love.

Margaret Ronia Frelund
Winona Health Chaplain Services

To learn more about hospice care, call: 507.457.4468.

Hospice is So Much More

Winona Health Hospice provides services to individuals and families within a 25-mile radius of Winona. Individuals do not have to be Winona Health patients to be eligible for care through Winona Health Hospice Services.

Meet our Winona Health Hospice Providers.

To learn more about hospice, talk with your primary care provider or call Winona Health Hospice Services at 507.457.4468.

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For More Information:

Winona Health Hospice Services

Senior Living at Watkins
175 East Wabasha Street
Winona, MN 55987
507.457.4468