Throughout November, Winona Area Hospice joins organizations across the nation to celebrate and bring awareness to National Hospice and Palliative Care. For more than 40 years, hospice has helped provide comfort and dignity to millions of people, allowing them to spend their final months wherever they call home, surrounded by their loved ones. Hospices ensure that pain management, therapies, and treatments all support a plan of care that is centered on the person’s goals. Hospice care also provides emotional support and advice to help family members become confident caregivers and adjust to the future with grief support for up to a year. Caring for the whole person allows the team to address each patient’s unique needs and challenges. Hospice care is not giving up, it is not the abandonment of care, and it is not reserved for the imminently dying. Hospice is a successful model of person-centered care that brings hope, dignity and compassion when they are most needed. Winona Area Hospice provides services to patients in Minnesota and Wisconsin, wherever they call home. For more information about hospice care and advance care planning, please call Winona Health’s Winona Area Hospice: 507.457.4468 or visit our Hospice care page.