Hazel Hawkins Hospital

2012 Grant
$53,450

Training for Palliative Care Nurses; San Benito County
This grant continues support for Hazel Hawkins’ palliative care program that provides pain and sumptom management, psychological and spiritual care for its in-hospital patients, as well as its skilled nursing and residential care patients at the end of life.  Bereavement counseling for their families is also funded. 

Hazel Hawkin’s palliative care program began in 2003 with funding from Hospice Foundation. The ability to offer different kinds of choices in end-of-life care is important to ensuring that people receive the most appropriate care based on their needs and desires.  Palliative care is an emerging specialty offered only in inpatient settings.  Like hospice, it combines pain and symptom management and emotional support, but adds the option to continue with aggressive medical interventions, such as chemotherapy.   Hospice care is provided at home, supports the family in their caregiving, and does not include aggressive treatments.

For more information, please call the Hospice Foundation at (831) 333-9023, or e-mail Alice Kinsler, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hospice Foundation.