LIfe's Journey Hospice

Life's Journey gives outstanding care with compassion and kindness. thank you. one thing: . the staff is incredible. and get a 5 star from me. they have made my remaining time enjoyable and filled with peace and humor. another day and I continue to be in awe of the nursing staff here. kind, compassionate and now use to my sense of humor. while i have lost my sense of taste they seem to like my EOL sense of humor. thank you staff continues to be outstanding. another day and i will be forever thank full to the staff here. again thank you. Friday and another beautiful day. the staff here is kind and compassionate. they deserve double what they are being paid. To the nurses and staff thank you. sleeping well. the staff continues to be fantastic. rain today. staff is great. another beautiful day and great staff. As my time winds down, I want to say how much I admire and respect the nursing staff. right before that time comes and I take the morphine, I would like to sit outside and drink my last beer and smoke my last cigarette and I will finally be at peace. if there is an afterlife, I hope god had a sense of humor and good WiFi

My family recently used Life's Journey for hospice respite entrusting my wife with severe dementia to their care. Her experience was disastrous. There was no air conditioning throughout her visit. The humidity in the room was so high, that the electronics including her bed quit working and she had to be moved to another room her last night. Her medications were not administered properly resulting in her experiencing a catatonic state of consciousness during most of her stay. Family members and visiting friends were appalled at her state of being. She was only gotten up out of bed and dressed on the first full day. My daughters who visited her daily found her unresponsive and on one day having been left and the door closed as she lay in her own excrement. When I arrived to bring her home, she was in a catatonic sleep at 11 am and didn't begin to recover for 36 hours. I would not recommend this facility to any family needing respite care for their loved one with advanced dementia.

Update: Okay after a tough start we were all on the same page eventually. I'm happy She was able to pass in peace without pain! I realize we all have room for improvement so I've revised my report. Thanks to all who helped us through this! No Stars for Life's Journey! Came recommended by the hospital staff but I would NOT recommend. Patient is EOL (End of Life) they shouldn't be suffering in pain waiting for Life's Journey's left hand to communicate with the right hand. Prayers out to everyone else that's experiencing the same.

We called a week ago to start palliative care for my mother. They did call back 2 days later...the. said they would call back again to set up a time to meet and never heard from anyone. This is not what we need at a time like this. I would never recommend.

I had a terrible experience here with my father and wish I wouldn’t have brought him to this place. Unfortunately I lost my dad. The nurse Mark failed to give my dad his inhaler and argued with him about having it when it was in the medicine cabinet the entire time. Then my dad had to call me because Mark wouldn’t give him his medicine to help with his breathing/anxiety and stated that my dad had to ask for it which was completely not true. It was an "as needed medicine" and How does a sick patient know to ask for a new medication when they take a fist full daily and depend on the facility to help them. I got there and the nurse Mark argued with me about it as well. Totally unprofessional. Well after this incident within 12 hours my dad went unresponsive and never woke up. Shame on you!!! Do not take your loved one here unless you plan on not taking them home. Don’t get me wrong there are other good nurses there but the bad outweigh the good since my Dad is no longer with me.

I can’t say enough great things about Life’s Journey Hospice, the people who work there and the owners! We started with Palliative care for out dad, he just wasn't done just yet with his chemo. They were amazing! Our Palliative nurse practitioner took the time to understand dad’s needs and made him feel comfortable. When it was time for dad to move into hospice, he was ready and understood that he wasn’t dying right now, that he just needed more care and support and so did we. It was amazing to hear him say these words himself. I give all that credit to Life’s Journey and their team who helped all of us understand what we didn’t know before. The Hospice team was amazing! And he even got to go to their hospice house for a respite stay! And that was included in the hospice benefit! WHO KNEW!?!?!?! Well thanks to Life’s Journey, we now knew. We are so grateful to them for their compassion and helping us understand all the benefits of hospice. Our dads quality of life is better than we could have ever imagined! We wanted to give them this public shout out because we almost didn’t know anything about them and we didn’t want another family to potentially miss out. We were given "choice" at the hospital, but choice was 4 pages long and we had no idea where to even begin. "Someone" wink wink, pointed us in their direction and we "interviewed " a couple others……well we had pushy, we had the big company and then we had Life’s Journey. Our Life’s Journey navigator was genuine, took her time to ask us what we needed and then compassionately spent almost 2 hours with us. You could just feel the empathy and genuine desire to help us in everything she said and did. That sealed the deal for us!!! And she and the Life’s Journey team has lived up to every word! Our mom is not in great health and our Navigator at Life’s Journey heard how we were struggling there too and helped get us an amazing home care company, a service where the physician care comes to us!!! Yes, comes to us!!!! Mom gets Palliative care now too with Life’s Journey and we can’t sing their praises loud enough!!!!!

I found Life's Journey by accident one day when my 88yr old father got lost and ended up at their doorstep, confused without his cell phone. They took him in, made him comfortable and performed detective work to find me so I could come get him. Three weeks later he suffered two strokes and I knew Life's Journey was the hospice I wanted him at. They treated him with such kindness and respect that I knew it was the right place for him to finish his life's journey. I can't thank them enough for the wonderful compassionate care they gave him and my family. Thank you to Mindy, Veronica, Rick and the others whose names I can not remember. You truly were a gift from God.