Now to serve you even better! Hancock Regional's Home Health Care and Hospice Department has relocated to 1560B N. State St. in the Green Meadows Shopping Mall! Stop by for information on how we can serve all your home care, hospice and home medical equipment needs close to home.

Provides a full range of quality services and physician-directed care in the home including: skilled nursing care; home health aides; private duty nursing; physical, occupational and speech therapy; social services; nutritional planning; as well as patient/family education and support.  A Medicare certified Hospice is available to support the care of terminal patients.

Today’s world holds many new demands for those of us responsible for the health and medical needs for our families. Shorter hospital stays, rehabilitation needs and sick children of working parents often necessitate home health care.

Hancock Regional Hospital’s Home Health Care offers a variety of medical and support resources designed to enhance your independence. Quality health services are brought right to your home, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Hancock Regional Hospital Home Health Care provides a full range of physician-directed health services on a scheduled basis-just the right amount of help for your specific needs.

Helping you help yourself

The goal of Home Health Care is to enable you to take care of your health-related needs with minimal disruption to your home life. Both you and your family are encouraged to  become actively involved in carrying out a treatment plan.

Education is a key component of home care. Whether you’re the patient or the care giver, the Home Health Care team will teach you about the medical condition, guide you through obtaining necessary equipment and medical supplies, and help you find solutions.

The professional, caring for you

Home Health Care is delivered by experienced health care professionals from Hancock Regional. Your personal physician is involved to develop a treatment plan and supervise the health care team who will administer your care. Periodically, the doctor and home health nurse will review your progress and update your treatment plan.

Skilled nursing care is provided by licensed registered nurses. Trained home health aides are available for basic needs. And if any therapeutic services are required, experienced therapists will also visit your home. All staff are insured and bonded.

Home Health Care offers the following services:

• Skilled nursing care

• Intravenous therapy

• Therapies, including physical, speech, occupational, respiratory and dietary

• Home health aide

• Homemaker and companion services

• Home Medical Equipment

• Social services and nutritional counseling

Home Health Care, your resource

Call Hancock Regional’s Home Health Care office at 317.468.4522, or talk to your doctor. Better health is right here. As a courtesy to our patients and families, we can assist you in understanding payment resources – whether through Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, private pay or other financial programs.

Serving Hancock and surrounding counties. Call 317.468.4522.

Payment Plans

Home Health Care accepts payment by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, or self pay. If you need Home Health Care services but have limited financial resources, ask our Home Health Care department for our various financial options.

Hancock Regional Home Health Care

• Licensed by the Indiana State

        Department of Health

• Accredited

• Medicare/Medicaid Approved

Darlene Albertson, Team Leader Home Health Care and Hospice, 317-468-4522

Hospice Care

The term hospice originated in the Middle Ages as a place of rest for weary travelers on a long journey. In today’s use, hospice is a concept of care for persons with a terminal illness – making their final journey as comfortable as possible.

Many terminally ill persons wish to live and die in the comfort and security of their own homes.  This choice becomes possible when supportive services are available to the patient and family.  Our Hospice Program provides these supportive services, enabling the dying person to live as freely as possible, for whatever time remains.  It establishes a partnership between the caregivers, volunteers, health care professionals, and attending physician that make up a compassionate care team.

Depending on the individual’s and family’s desires, a hospice volunteer may:

• Visit to provide friendly support

• Sit with the terminally ill person while the caregiver runs errands or simply "gets away" for a while

• Drive the person to an appointment

• Telephone at regular intervals

Hospice services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Services provided by hospice include:

• Medical and nursing care

• Personal care

• Homemaker services

• Social work services

• Grief support

• Pain management

• Spiritual care

Who is eligible for hospice?

Hospice care can be arranged for any terminally ill person and his family within the hospital’s service area in and around Hancock County.  A physician’s referral order is required when care is provided beyond volunteer services.

How can I, or a family member, obtain services?

Your request takes a simple call to the Hospice Coordinator at 317-468-4522.

How can I assist the hospice program?

To help others, our program needs contributions of time and money.

Hospice volunteers are an essential part of the services. Persons are needed to visit with terminally ill persons and families, and also to help with fund raising and other auxiliary tasks.

Volunteer applications for the hospice program are available by calling the Volunteer Coordinator at 317-468-4522.

Financial contributions are needed to provide materials and equipment for the program.  If you would like to make a donation to the Hospice Fund through the Hancock Regional Hospital Foundation, please click here.

A prayer from Mother Teresa...

"Lord, grant that I may seek comfort rather than be comforted, To understand rather than to be understood, To love more than to be loved. For it is by forgetting self that one finds, It is in forgiving that one is forgiven. It is in dying that one awakens to the eternal life."