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One Senior Place
8085 Spyglass Hill Road
Viera, FL 32940
321-253-6311
or
4450 W. Eau Gallie Blvd.
Suite 280
Melbourne, FL 32934
321-751-6671
1-800-93-VITAS
VITAS-Helping to manage life-limiting illnesses
VITAS provides a special form of care for people during the last months of life. When medical treatments cannot cure a disease, the VITAS interdisciplinary team of hospice professionals can do a great deal to control pain, reduce anxiety and provide medical, spiritual and emotional comfort to patients and their families.
As the nation's leading provider of hospice care, VITAS has been serving patients since 1978. Our name comes from the Latin word for lives. Our goal is to do everything we can to improve the quality of life for our patients and their loved ones.
- We offer people choices
- We work to ease the anxiety, the discomfort and high expense that can accompany incurable illness.
- We help preserve dignity.
Hospice and End of Life Services - What You Should Know...
The word "hospice" stems from the Latin word "hospitium" meaning guesthouse. It was originally used to describe a place of shelter for weary and sick travelers returning from religious pilgrimages. During the 1960's, Dr. Cicely Saunders, a British physician began the modern hospice movement by establishing St. Christopher's Hospice near London. St. Christopher's organized a team approach to professional caregiving, and was the first program to use modern pain management techniques to compassionately care for the dying. The first hospice in the United States was established in New Haven, Connecticut in 1974.
Today there are more than 3,200 hospice programs in the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam. Hospice programs cared for nearly 885,000 people in the United States in 2002. Read full story...
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VITAS Innovative Hospice • (321) 751-6671
VITAS provides a special form of care for people during the last months of life. When medical treatments cannot cure a disease, the VITAS interdisplinary team of hospice professionals can do a great d Learn more...