Healthcare Services
Hospice and Palliative Care
What Is Hospice and Palliative Care?
Hospice and palliative care is a type of medical service provided by a specialized team consisting of physicians, nurses, and social workers. The goal is to improve the patient’s quality of life by actively managing pain and other distressing symptoms, while alleviating the psychological, social, and spiritual suffering of both patients and their families.
History of Hospice and Palliative Care at the VHS Daejeon Hospital
Date |
Details |
|---|---|
2002 |
Launch of Industrial-Type Hospice Program |
July 02, 2015 |
Designated as an Inpatient Hospice Institution |
May 16, 2016 |
Implementation of Hospice Assistant Personnel System |
June 18, 2018 |
Re-designated as a Palliative Care Institution (Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision Act) |
March 01, 2019 |
Implementation of 2nd Pilot Project for Home-Based Hospice Care |
September 01, 2020 |
Designated as a home-based hospice institution. |
Key Features of the VHS Daejeon Hospital Hospice
- Largest hospice unit in the Daejeon area with 16 beds
- Operates with 19 certified hospice assistant personnel
- Equipped with 2 rooms for improving end-of-life quality
Total of 16 operating beds (one single room, three double rooms, and three triple rooms)
Equipped with legally required facilities such as end-of-life rooms, family rooms, program and counseling rooms, and bathing rooms, as well as advanced medical equipment including electric beds and pressure-relief mattresses.
Ward
Family Room
Electric hospital bed, Pressure-relief mattresses.
