Celebrate Life
Because Every Day is a Gift
We provide compassionate care for those with life-limiting health conditions and incurable illnesses.
The main focus of hospice care is to relieve pain for those in the last six months of life. Hospice care focuses on comfort, rather than a cure.
Hospice is not just a location — it’s a service available virtually anywhere it’s needed. Hospice of Southwest Ohio offers services in patients’ homes, skilled nursing settings, assisted living communities, hospitals and at our Care Center in Madeira, centrally located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In Your Home
Hospice of Southwest Ohio provides care in your loved one’s private home, allowing them to continue living in a familiar space.
In Our Care Center
Our Care Center, centrally located in Cincinnati, provides short-term respite and residential hospice care.
In a Healthcare Center
We provide care in a number of healthcare facilities, allowing your loved one to stay in a familiar and comfortable space.
What’s the difference between hospice care and palliative care?
It’s easy to confuse hospice and palliative care, as they are quite similar. While the main focus of each is to ease the symptoms of incurable illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, lung disease, dementia, kidney failure and more — hospice care is typically reserved for those with less than six months to live.
Palliative Care
- Anyone with a serious illness
- Care is focused on treating disease symptoms to make patients more comfortable, and can begin as early as the diagnosis Patients can continue treatment for the illness, but don’t have to
- Treatment can occur in patients’ homes, hospitals, nursing homes or assisted living facilities
- Some private insurance companies will pay for palliative care, but it depends on the individual’s plan and what type of treatment is necessary
- Medicare may cover palliative care charges, but it depends on specific needs (such as medication or length of treatment)
Hospice Care
- Anyone with a terminal illness
- Doctors have identified the disease isn’t responding to treatments and the patient is expected to live for less than six months Patients’ care focuses on symptoms alone rather than a cure
- Treatment can occur in patients’ homes, hospice care centers, hospitals, nursing homes or assisted living facilities
- Many private insurance companies will pay for hospice care, but it depends on the individual’s plan
- Medicare covers all hospice care charges with a physician's referral
Looking for relief from pain and distressing symptoms?
Discover more about palliative services with CareBridge Primary and Palliative Care of Cincinnati.
Looking for compassionate end-of-life care?
Learn how the team at Hospice of Southwest Ohio can help make life more peaceful.
Serenity, offered where the patient is most comfortable.
Hospice of Southwest Ohio is dedicated to providing comfort. Whether it’s at home, a senior living community, a hospital or our Care Center, we offer hospice care wherever your loved one calls home.
We service the following counties in and around Cincinnati, Ohio:
- Clermont County
- Butler County
- Warren County
- Hamilton County
- Greene County
- Montgomery County
