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Gilchrist Hospice Care - Guiding the Way
Since our founding, Gilchrist Hospice Care has always led the way in providing uniquely personal attention and exceptionally compassionate care. Year after year, we have provided the highest quality hospice services, whether home-based or inpatient, to thousands of individuals residing throughout Central Maryland. Gilchrist Hospice Care is the region’s leading provider of hospice care and the largest hospice organization in...

About Gilchrist Hospice Care
Our interdisciplinary team of professionally trained staff and volunteers are committed to providing comfort oriented care with a holistic approach aimed at achieving comfort throughout the progression of the illness. Members of the hospice team work closely together to provide services including medical care, nursing care, social work, home health and volunteer assistance, as well as spiritual and grief counseling...

How Can We Help
When every moment becomes more precious, Gilchrist Hospice Care helps people with life-limiting illnesses make the most of each day, on their own terms, in familiar surroundings. Our specially trained staff and volunteers provide compassionate end-of-life care that addresses each patient’s physical, emotional and spiritual needs with an emphasis on comfort and pain management. We also provide caregiving instruction and grief...

To Request Care and Information
Anyone can make a referral for Gilchrist Hospice Care – patients, family members, physicians, other health professionals, friends and clergy. In most cases, patients will be admitted to the program within 48 hours after receiving the referral information. Gilchrist Hospice Care will complete the necessary paperwork and obtain physician orders to streamline the admission for the patient and family. To make a...

Healthcare Professionals
Personal physicians are an integral part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. Gilchrist Hospice Care works collaboratively with any physician selected by a hospice patient or family. To date, we have worked with hundreds of physicians across our service area. We rely on the attending physician to guide the patient and family to hospice care when a cure is no longer possible. At...

Giving to Gilchrist
Your contributions, whether monetary, time or resources, allow Gilchrist Hospice Care to continue our mission to profoundly enhance the end of life for individuals facing a life limiting illness. Gilchrist Hospice Care is committed to providing end-of-life care and services to all those in need, regardless of financial considerations. The philosophy of hospice is that “no one should die alone...

Calendar and Events
Bereavement Services Calendar for July through September 2008 Support Groups and Workshops   Volunteer Training Schedules July/August 2008 September/October...

What is Hospice Care
Hospice is a unique philosophy of health care for patients with a life-limiting illness. The focus of hospice care is on enhancing the quality of a patient’s life while assisting with the needs of their caregiving family. For patients no longer seeking curative treatment, hospice focuses on pain management and symptom control with the goal of keeping the patient comfortable as...

Who May Need Hospice Care
Hospice care is appropriate for anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness whose life expectancy is measured in months rather than years and where the goals of care have changed from cure to comfort measures. When curative treatment is no longer available or desirable, hospice care focuses on palliative (comfort oriented) care, pain management, symptom control and emotional support. Hospice care is...

Where We Serve
Gilchrist Hospice Care serves the central Maryland community– serving Baltimore City, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, and Howard Counties. We maintain four home-based care offices within our service area, with our primary office located at Gilchrist Center. Take a tour of our inpatient facility, Gilchrist Center.    Gilchrist Center 555 West Towsontown BoulevardTowson, MD 21204Phone: (443) 849-8200Fax: (443) 849-8359Email: lmulligan@gilchristhospice.org   Baltimore County10085 Red Run BoulevardSuite 401Owings Mills, MD 21117Phone:...

Publications
Gilchrist Hospice Care will provide any informational brochures about our organization and services upon request. We offer information on the following subjects: Bereavement Services; Children, Teens & Grief; Hospice Caregiving Book; Caring Touch at Gilchrist Center; Fiction or Fact: The Truth About Hospice; Garden Wall Plaque Forms; Gilchrist Center: A Special Home; Grief’s Journey; Guide to Patient Services at Gilchrist...

Gilchrist Center and Virtual Tour
Gilchrist Center is our 24-bed inpatient facility in Towson, Maryland. The center’s dedicated staff provides expert care for terminally ill individuals in a homelike environment that is welcoming, supportive and comfortable for both patients and their loved ones. As a general guideline, patients are admitted to Gilchrist Center when symptoms of their disease – pain, dementia, delirium, breathlessness, and other conditions...

Newsletters
In addition to our informational brochures, Gilchrist Hospice Care produces a quarterly newsletter, Greater Reflections. Please click on one of our recent editions to download a copy.  Reflections Spring 2007 Reflections Winter 2006 To view this PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, available at no charge from Adobe. Click here to download. ...

Annual Reports
Gilchrist Hospice Care also produces an annual report, which showcases just a few of the many patients and families we provide care and support to throughout the year. By highlighting these patients and families, we are able to demonstrate to our donors how their generous contributions enable us to provide care and support to all those in need of our...

FAQ At a Glance
Hospice is more than a program or building. It is based upon a concept of hope and commitment to patients and their loved ones that the dying process will be pain-free and dignified. The core concepts of hospice are pain management, physical, emotional, social and spiritual support and acceptance of death as a natural part of the life cycle. Did you...

Consent Forms
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End Stage Indicators
Gilchrist Hospice Care has created the special brochure, End-Stage Indicators for Non-Cancer Diagnosis, for your use in determining whether a patient is eligible for Hospice care. First, consider these three questions: 1. Do you believe cure is no longer possible? 2. Would you be surprised if this patient is still living within the next year? 3. Do you believe this patient and family would...

Guidelines for Eligibility
To Gilchrist Hospice Care: Hospice care is appropriate for anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness whose life expectancy is measured in months rather than years and where the goals of care have changed from cure to comfort measures. To Gilchrist Center (inpatient facility): Admission is based on the patient’s clinical status. Priority for admission is granted to patients who are experiencing...

Reimbursement for Services
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Palliative Care
The term “palliative care” describes comfort-oriented care that addresses not just physical pain, but also the emotional, social and spiritual needs of seriously ill patients, to enhance the quality of life for both patients and their families. This definition of palliative care was established by the World Health Organization in 1990. Sharing the same core values as hospice, palliative care extends...

Medial Leaders
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Care and Services
Gilchrist Hospice Care’s approach to care involves patient choice. At the heart of the hospice philosophy is the belief that patients should be encouraged to remain independent and in control of their lives. We involve patients and their loved ones in every decision about their care, encouraging them to participate fully. Gilchrist Hospice Care’s care and services include: Specialized physical, emotional and...

A Team Approach to Care
An interdisciplinary, specially trained team of professionals and volunteers, working in close cooperation with the patient’s personal physician, plan and deliver all services tailored to each patient’s and family’s special care needs. The Hospice team includes: You and Your Loved OnesYou are the most important member and leader of the team. Our focus of care is in response to your choices for...

Where is Care Provided
Hospice care can be provided in a variety of settings: at home, nursing home, assisted or independent living facility, in a retirement or long-term care facility, or in a stand-alone hospice center, such as Gilchrist Center.   Training and education in end-of-life care is provided for facility staff who are part of the caregiving team. Hospice and facility staff work together...

Paying for Care
Gilchrist Hospice Care’s services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance companies, sponsored care, and HMOs, once a physician has certified that the patient has a terminal illness with a life expectancy of six months or less. You may contact your insurance carrier or a representative of Gilchrist Hospice Care will be able to help determine your coverage. In-kind services and...

Grief Support Services
Grieving the death of a loved one is a unique process for each person, with no prescribed path or timetable. Gilchrist Hospice Care helps those left behind to better understand and cope with their grief and to work through the process in their own individual ways. For 13 months after the death of a loved one, our experienced grief counselors and...

Gilchrist Center and Virtual Tour
Gilchrist Center is our 24-bed inpatient facility in Towson, Maryland. The center’s dedicated staff provides expert care for terminally ill individuals in a homelike environment that is welcoming, supportive and comfortable for both patients and their loved ones. As a general guideline, patients are admitted to Gilchrist Center when symptoms of their disease – pain, dementia, delirium, breathlessness, and other conditions...

Volunteer Training
Training, Time and Other Requirements Our comprehensive training program is required to ensure that volunteers are fully acquainted with Gilchrist Hospice Care’s mission, services and programs and prepare them to feel comfortable with whatever responsibilities they will assume. Through lectures and discussions, Hospice staff work to help volunteers become knowledgeable about our guiding philosophy of hospice care. Classes expose volunteers to the...

Grief Support Meetings
Whether you have lost a spouse, life partner, parent, grandparent or guardian, we can help. Gilchrist Hospice Care offers a wide range of grief support resources, which are open to our own bereaved or anyone in the community who has lost a loved one. The grief support resources offered include:   Grief counselingOne-on-one counseling is available for those who prefer an individual...

Events
         STEP RIGHT UP FOR HOSPICE’S BIG EVENT! At the 23rd Annual Taste & Auction of Howard County Sunday, October 19, 2008 5-9pm Turf Valley Resort & Conference Center 2700 Turf Valley Road, Ellicott City Join us for an evening of fun, food and fabulous prizes! Enjoy delicious food prepared by over 20 of Howard County’s finest restaurants and caterers! Plus, bid on hundreds of silent...

Ways to Contribute
Memorial giftsYou may make a contribution to Hospice in memory of a loved one   BequestsYou may wish to bequeath a share of your estate to us, allowing us to use your gift for our most pressing needs.   Restricted contributionsYou may wish to contribute to a particular component of hospice care, such as volunteer, grief support or spiritual support programs or projects; our...

Contribute Plans
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Volunteers
Our volunteers serve Gilchrist Hospice Care in a variety of capacities. Some work directly with patients, while others assist with administrative duties or in follow up with bereaved clients. Here are some of the ways that Gilchrist Hospice Care volunteers make a difference: Sharing companionship with patients and families, whether reading aloud or just being a good listener. Providing respite care in...

Volunteer Training
Training, Time and Other Requirements Our comprehensive training program is required to ensure that volunteers are fully acquainted with Gilchrist Hospice Care’s mission, services and programs and prepare them to feel comfortable with whatever responsibilities they will assume. Through lectures and discussions, Hospice staff work to help volunteers become knowledgeable about our guiding philosophy of hospice care. Classes expose volunteers to the...

Contact Us
Baltimore City555 West Towsontown BoulevardTowson, MD 21204Phone: (443) 849-8200Fax: (443) 849-8359Email: lmulligan@gilchristhospice.org   Baltimore County10085 Red Run BoulevardSuite 401Owings Mills, MD 21117Phone: (443) 204-8282Fax: (443) 204-8285   Harford County4-C North Avenue, Suite 422Bel Air, MD 21014Phone: (410) 638-5103 or (410) 893-1565Fax: (410) 893-9886 Howard County5537 Twin Knolls Road, Suite 433Columbia, MD 21045Phone: (410) 730-5072Fax: (410) 730-5284 If you or your family have any concerns regarding your...

Directions
555 West Towsontown BoulevardTowson, Maryland 21204Phone: (443) 849-8200Fax: (443) 849-8359Email: lmulligan@gilchristhospice.org Directions to Gilchrist Center: From Areas North of BaltimoreTake 695 to the exit marked for Charles Street heading south. Follow Charles Street for 2.6 miles then turn left onto Towsontown Blvd. Follow 0.25 miles and turn right at the Gilchrist Center sign and stone pillars.   From Areas South of BaltimoreFrom 695 through...

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Careers
Please click on the link below to see a complete list of open positions for Gilchrist Hospice Care. Open Positions   For further information on these and other opportunities with Gilchrist Hospice Care call...

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