•To educate the community about end-of-life care concerns, advanced care planning, and pain management
•To educate the community about the death and dying process and the services offered through the HOSPICE program
•To aid the terminally ill person and the family in the struggle to maintain independence and experience death with dignity
•To maintain the dying person in the home as an alternative to institutional care, or an appropriate setting as determined by the patient and the family
•To provide a variety of care to meet the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of the whole person
•To supplement and coordinate community resources and programs on behalf of the client and his family
•To allow the dying person a life as full and free of pain as possible, and a death with dignity supported by those who love and care for him
•To support the family throughout the grief process after the death of their loved one.