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The Quality you Deserve, The Care You Expect
Ramona VNA & Hospice is a community-based, non-profit agency providing home health and hospice services to Southwestern Riverside County, California since 1987.  With branch offices in Hemet and Sun City, our staff cares for those residing throughout the Hemet/San Jacinto, Sun City/Menifee and Temecula/Murrieta valleys

Hospice Care is About Living
When most people hear the term hospice, the first thing that often comes to mind is the loss of a loved one, the end of life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hospice Is Life! Hospice is Living!

Hospice provides specialized care to patients with life-limiting illness. It transitions curative care to comfort care, focusing on relief from pain and other symptoms so that patients live as fully, as comfortably and as long as possible. It is a philosophy of care that respects the emotional and spiritual needs as well as the physical. And hospice cares for the loved ones who care for you.

Entering the Hospice program provides a tremendous support system for the patient, family and caregivers, assuring quality and dignity through the end-of-life process. As noted in a National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) study, “There is an inaccurate perception throughout America that receiving hospice care means you have “given up”. Rather, patients or families who choose hospice care live an average of one month longer than similar patients who do not choose hospice care.

Hospice is available whether you are in a family residence, assisted living facility, skilled nursing facility, or hospital. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is appropriate for persons with a life expectancy of 6 months or less if the illness runs its expected course. But many hospice patients live far longer, improving from the attentive care they receive at home from the hospice team of healthcare professionals.

The decision to receive hospice care belongs to the patient and their family, in consultation with their physician. Hospice is appropriate when the patient feels it is the right time not when others feel it is the right time. The decision is a personal one. The CHOICE is a personal one. The Agency chosen is a personal CHOICE.

Ramona VNA & Hospice, with the dedicated support of Hemet Hospice Volunteers, Inc., is a proven leader in the delivery of hospice care in Southwest Riverside County. As the only locally based accredited hospice agency, our team of nurses, physicians, chaplains, social workers and support staff have provided high quality, ethical care to our community for more than thirty years.

When you have a life-limiting illness and no longer desire curative treatment, consider hospice care for pain and symptom control. Think of Ramona VNA & Hospice, your local hospice provider!

Remember, you have a CHOICE when you desire hospice care. When you think of hospice, think of Life! Think of Living!

PRESS RELEASE - The Current Morphine Shortage Crisis
As a result of the recent actions taken by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) regarding morphine, hydromorphone and oxycodone there has been a great deal of concern and many questions raised by hospice and palliative care organizations and more importantly by hospice and palliative care patients and their families who we serve. read more

Dr. Leslee B. Cochrane - Riverside County’s Third District Supervisor
Jeff Stone Man of the Year.

Dr. Leslee Cochrane and Third District Supervisor, Jeff Stone.

Dr. Leslee B. Cochrane has been honored with the Riverside County Third District Supervisor Jeff Stone Fourth Annual Supervisorial District Man of the Year Award. Dr. Cochrane, Board Certified by the American Academy of Family Practitioners and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine, has served as the Medical Director for Ramona VNA & Hospice since September 2003.

Dr. Cochrane has always had a deep desire to work with people in their own setting, whether through mission work, or clinical practice. His focus when developing a plan of care for the patient must be one that works for the “real” environment in which the patient ... continue

Ramona VNA & Hospice
Phone: 1-800-LUV-RVNA (800-588-7862)
Referral Fax: (951) 679-3944

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