Summa Health provides hospice care for Northeast Ohio. Our interdisciplinary team of dedicated medical professionals includes board-certified medical directors with over 80 years’ experience combined and volunteers who work together with patients and their families to create comprehensive, individualized care plans.
We focus on treating the patient and the family—not the disease. Our hospice services—designed to deliver complete care for the whole person, encompassing body, mind, and spirit—help to prevent and ease suffering, while enhancing comfort and quality of life.
The disciplines that make up our team include physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, aides, social workers, spiritual care coordinators, massage therapists, and volunteers.
Hospice is a holistic approach to caring for people who are very ill. It involves a team of trained professionals, available 24 hours a day, who provide medical attention, pain management and emotional and spiritual support tailored to an individual's needs and wishes.
We also offer the following services to our patients:
Hospice Frequently Asked Questions
Our medical directors are directly involved with staff on a daily basis to:
Hospice isn't a place – it's a concept of care that can be provided anywhere. Summa offers hospice care where the patient and family will benefit most – a patient's home, a nursing facility or within many of our northeast Ohio hospitals.
Summa offers Hospice at Home services in many northeast Ohio counties including Summit, Medina, Portage and Stark counties. We offer inpatient hospice care at Summa Health System – Akron and Barberton Campuses and Western Reserve Hospital.
In addition to caring for the patient, hospice teams also provide compassion and support to loved ones during the illness and the grieving process. Our hospice team focuses on delivering medical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual support, most of which is provided in the patient’s own home. This approach enables families to remain together where they are most comfortable.
At Summa Health Hospice, we have been providing uncompromising quality care to terminally ill patients and the people who love and care for them. Our hospice services allow patients and their families to maximize each and every day, while we help to fill in the gaps with individually designed patient care plans and a supportive network of medical professionals and volunteers.
To learn more about Summa Health Hospice Services, call 234.200.1210 to speak with one of our specialists.
