Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX

What to Expect

Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX focuses on caring, not curing. We believe that everyone has a right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that families should receive the necessary support to allow each of us to do so.

We achieve this through a team approach by providing the patient with medical care and pain management. We’re here for the family as well with emotional and spiritual support as needed.

What is specifically provided by Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX?

We are a knowledgeable staff of doctors, specialists, and volunteers and we all deliver care to our patients according to our area of expertise. In addition, Crown will help provide medications, supplies, equipment and hospital services that are related to life-limiting illnesses. We can also assist the patient and family in locating community resources for additional services and items not covered by hospice care.

Our Team

At Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX, we focus on adding life to days at a time when days can no longer be added to life.

Hospice is a program of palliative home care and supportive services that provides physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for terminally ill persons and their families. It is a comprehensive, medically directed, team-oriented program that accentuates pain management and symptom control for patients who no longer respond to routine or aggressive medical care. The focus of hospice care is palliative rather than curative in nature.

Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX provides care with an interdisciplinary team of professionals, including doctors, nurses, therapists, certified home health aides, social workers, clergy and volunteers working together to provide a full range of services. Our team, along with the patient’s physician, works with the patient and family to develop an individual plan of care to manage the patient’s symptoms and meet the goals of the patient and family.

Our team at Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX is educated and experienced. We believe in providing the best care possible to our patients. Our goal is to make the remaining days of your loved one’s life as enjoyable and peaceful as possible.

Why Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX?

Although all hospices specialize in the care of life-limiting illnesses, the quality of care and extent of services can differ widely among hospice care providers. Many hospices are part of large, for-profit health care systems. However, we are an independent, community health care provider. That means that instead of looking for profit, we are passionate about providing care to our patients.

Many patients who are diagnosed with a life-limiting illness want to live the remainder of their lives in the comfort, security and familiarity of home, surrounded by those who love them. Our goal is to provide peace and comfort to the patient and their loved ones through pain control, symptom management, psychological and spiritual aspects of care. Victoria TX Hospice helps to ensure quality of life for people faced with these life limiting illnesses by providing palliative home care.

With Crown Hospice of Victoria, TX, patients and loved ones regain a sense of control over their lives. We take comfort and pride in the fact they are doing everything possible for their loved one. We allow the patient to concentrate on living fully instead of focusing all their waking moments being consumed by pain.

Grief and Loss

While we are here for your loved one, we are also here for you and your family during this time of grief. Grief is a normal and natural response when we suffer a loss. While everyone will experience a loss at some point, the symptoms of grief are often misunderstood – both by the people going through it and the people around them. By raising grief awareness, individuals in mourning can better understand their own reactions and their loved ones can better support them.

Symptoms of Grief

When we stop thinking of grief as a timeline, we can look at the actual physical, mental, emotional and spiritual reactions individuals may experience. Simply knowing these feelings are normal can help some people in mourning. Understanding the symptoms of grief is also helpful for those around them.
What a mourner is experiencing today may fade and be replaced with other reactions. It is not a linear process. Mourners may circle back to emotions. The bereaved may go through a period of time when they feel at peace and then return to sadness. All of this is normal.

Common Mental Reactions to Grief

• Difficulties concentrating
• Continuously thinking about the loss
• Difficulty making decisions
• Low self-esteem
• Believing you were responsible for the loss
• Increased or decreased dreams
• Increased nightmares
• Thinking everyone is watching you
• Thinking you are different from everyone else
• Self-destructive thoughts

Common Physical Reactions to Grief

• Sleeping changes – too little or too much
• Weight and appetite changes
• Tiredness
• Deep sighing
• Feeling weak
• Energized: feeling strong/invincible
• Muscle tension
• Pounding heart
• Headaches and stomach aches
• Easily shaken by certain sights and sounds (particularly those that remind you of the loss)
• Increased number of colds and infections

Common Spiritual Reactions to Grief

• Feeling lost and empty
• Feeling abandoned or punished by God
• Questioning a reason to go on living
• Feeling like you don’t belong
• Feeling angry with God
• Questioning your religious beliefs
• Feeling spiritually connected to the person who died
• Feeling spiritually connected to God
• Needing to receive forgiveness
• Finding hope in prayer/spiritual beliefs
• Finding purpose in life

Common Behaviors and Social Interactions When Grieving

• Trying to stay constantly active
• Overachieving
• Underachieving
• Changes in work performance
• Being preoccupied and forgetful
• Being more clumsy
• Crying a lot, or more easily
• Blaming others
• Not caring about things, wanting to drop out
• Wanting to spend more time alone
• Dropping out of social activities
• Pulling away from others’ attempts to touch and comfort you
• Wanting more attention and affection
• Seeking approval and reassurance from others
• Being aggressive, getting more arguments
• Showing more creative expression through music, writing, and art

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illness.

Palliative care provides many benefits, including:

• relief from pain and other symptoms
• affirming life and regarding dying as a normal process
• not hastening or postponing death
• integrating the psychological and spiritual aspects of care
• offering a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death
• offering support to the family to help cope during this difficult time
• enhancing the quality of life
• improving the course of the illness

Contact us if you are in need of more information about hospice care.