Care Enhancing Services

Community Nurse offers a variety of individualized palliative and community support services focused on health and social well-being.

Care Enhancing Services

Community Nurse offers a variety of individualized palliative and community support services focused on health and social well-being.

Community Nurse provides tailored services to support health and social well-being for individuals facing health challenges including Palliative Care and Community Support Services. Whether through expert guidance in palliative care or innovative community support services, we strive to empower patients, their caregivers, and their families to live with dignity and confidence, ensuring health and social well-being at every stage.

These services are made possible through the generous support of community fundraising efforts. Click here to learn more about the impact of this support last fiscal year. Click here to donate.

Palliative Care

Community Nurse provides expert guidance and support through palliative care consultations with a nurse practitioner, which help patients and caregivers navigate the complex decisions due to life-limiting illness and to improve quality of life.

Pain and symptom management

Education on disease progression

Advanced care planning, including healthcare proxy and MOLST

Identifying patient priorities, wishes, and preference

“I would like to thank you for the care and support my husband and I received by both the Palliative Care and Hospice teams during his final weeks. The compassionate care, kindness and support helped get us through a very difficult time. I will always be thankful that your staff made it possible for him to remain in the comfort of his home.”

- Grateful spouse

Community Support Services

Community Nurse offers a variety of individualized care enhancing services focused on health and social well-being. These services are designed to cater to the unique needs of individuals, ensuring they receive the best possible care and support in their own homes.

Including:

In-home safety screen focused on fall prevention

Customized in-home strength and balance program

Routine wellness calls

Social visits to minimize social isolation/ loneliness

Connection to community resources

Connection to care providers

Memory-loss caregiver support

“My volunteer’s bi-monthly visits have become a highlight and so helpful as she tutors me on the complexities of my new phone. Then there is her sensitive listening ear as she patiently waits when I get distracted and start reminiscing which often leads to laughter. Love it!”

- grateful social visit recipient

Get in Touch with us

Learn more about our community support services or set up a consultation by calling 508-992-6278.

Community Nurse is consistently awarded the highest ratings by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). See Community Nurse's current home health care rating.