These are things we want as we journey through life, and what we offer at Superior Home Health and Hospice.  We help make the transition easier for those with life-limiting illnesses and those who share their lives.
At Superior Home Health and Hospice, we provide care for people with life-limiting illnesses and support for those who love them.

Our core services focus on pain and symptom management for patients, and emotional and spiritual support for patients and their loved ones.

The hospice program is reflective of a spirit and idea of caring that emphasizes comfort and dignity for the dying, making it possible for them to remain independent for as long as possible, and in familiar surroundings.  Hospice personnel respect and respond to the unique differences in family/caregiver, lifestyle, values, and wishes.

Hospice affirms life.

Hospice exists in the belief that through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring community, patients/families/caregivers will be free to attain a degree of mental preparation for death that is satisfying to them.

Committed to our Patients

At Superior Home Health and Hospice, we recognize the unique physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of each person.  We strive to extend the highest level of courtesy and service to patients/families/caregivers, visitors and each other.

Services Provided

Regular visits are made to the home by Nurses, Nurses Aides and Volunteers under the supervision of a Hospice physician or the patient’s physician, in order to coordinate services and maintain the patient in the home setting.

Symptom control  
Home care visits
Short term inpatient, including respite care
Continuous home care for medical crises
24 hour availability
Emotional/Spiritual support
Bereavement Support
Social Services
Volunteer Services Physical
Occupational or Speech Therapy Medical supplies and equipment Pain Control

Referrals accepted from:

Patients
Families
Physicians
Clergy
Friends
Home Health Agencies
Social Service Agencies
Health Care Institutions
 

Admission Criteria
The patient has a terminal illness with limited life expectancy.
The patient is no longer under active treatment for cure of the disease.
The patient and family are willing to participate in Home Care.
A primary caregiver has been established in the home.

Cost
Medicare patients are covered under the Hospice Benefit.  While commercial insurance coverage varies, most carriers provide benefits for home care and in-patient hospice services.

For more information, or to make a referral:
Houghton-Keweenaw Counties
540 Depot Street
Hancock, MI49930
906-482-7382

Baraga County
303 Baraga Avenue
L’Anse, MI 49946
906-524-6142

Ontonagon County
408 Copper St.
Ontonagon, MI 49953
906-884-4485

Gogebig County
210 N. Moore St.
Bessemer, MI 49911
906-667-0200