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Home Health Services in the Northern Suburbs
Northwestern Medicine is dedicated to helping you improve your quality of life after leaving the hospital or any other time you require home health care.
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Home Health Services in the Western Suburbs - Northwestern Medicine Home Health & Hospice
Northwestern Medicine is dedicated to helping you improve your quality of life after leaving the hospital or any other time you require home health care.
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Hospice Care in the Western Suburbs - Northwestern Medicine Home Health & Hospice
The goal of Northwestern Medicine hospice care is to relieve pain, control symptoms and offer physical, emotional, social and spiritual support.
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Northwestern Medicine Home Health
Northwestern Medicine is dedicated to helping you improve your quality of life after leaving the hospital or any other time you require home health care.
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Home Health Services in Greater DeKalb County
Northwestern Medicine Home Care at Kishwaukee Hospital provides home health services to DeKalb County and northern Illinois area residents who prefer to receive care in the comfort of their home.
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Hospice Care in Greater DeKalb County – Northwestern Medicine Home Health & Hospice
Northwestern Medicine Home Health and Hospice at Kishwaukee Hospital has one mission: to assist people to live with dignity and hope in ways that best meet their needs while coping with end-of-life issues, and to support grieving family and community members.

Home Health and Hospice Care
When you need care in your home or are nearing the end of life, Northwestern Medicine Home Health and Hospice services provide a wide range of care.
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What Is Home Health and Hospice Care?
Home health and hospice offers a wide range of compassionate care when you need services in your home or at the end of life.
Home health
The criteria that make a beneficiary eligible for home health care is defined by Medicare and most insurances as:
"Skilled care, ordered by a physician, to a homebound individual, intermittently and for a short duration, after acute illness or an exacerbation of chronic illness, in a safe environment."
An individual is considered homebound if leaving home requires taxing effort, the help of another individual or the use of an assistive device. It is usually due to illness or injury that an individual’s ability to leave home is restricted. In general, time away from home should be of short duration and infrequent.
Home health services available throughout Northwestern Medicine include:
Home Health in the Western Suburbs
Home Health Downtown (Academic Medical Center)
Home Health in Greater DeKalb County
Hospice
Hospice is a philosophy of care that accepts death as the final stage of life. The goal of hospice is to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones. Hospice care assures patients that each day can be enjoyed in physical and emotional comfort.
Hospice care services available throughout Northwestern Medicine include:
Hospice Care in the Western Suburbs
Hospice Care in Greater DeKalb County
Home Health and Hospice Care
Related Resources
Downloads
- Understanding Hospice Care
- Parkinson's Rehabilitation Program
- Hospice Care, Dignity and Compassion
- Home Health, Always at Your Side Sales Referral Flier
- Joint Replacement Program Flier at Central DuPage Hospital and Delnor Hospital
- Volunteer at Home Health and Hospice in the Western Suburbs
- Lake Forest Hospital Home Health Outpatient Order Form
Websites
- DuPage County Senior Services*: DuPage County supports a variety of services to help seniors remain active, healthy and independent.
- Helpguide.org*: If you are helping care for someone you love, find information, support and advice to help make the caregiving process better for everyone.
- Home Health Care Agencies*: Read more about things to consider when selecting a home health provider.
- Illinois Department of Aging*: Learn more about state programs and policies to protect older adults.
- Illinois Guardianship & Advocacy Commission*: Access the Illinois short form power of attorney for health care form.
- LSVT Global*: Learn more about these innovative therapies for Parkinson’s disease.
- Mental Health America*: Losing a loved one is one of life’s most stressful events. Learn more about coping with this loss.
- National Healthcare Decisions Day*: Learn more about an advance directive and how it can ensure your healthcare wishes are met if you are unable to speak for yourself.
- WebMD*: Discover insights and advice for caregivers.
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