258 East Garrison Boulevard
Water Tower Place
Gastonia, NC 28054
704-861-8405
Gaston Hospice is a unique form of health care for patients with a limited life expectancy of six months or less who can no longer benefit from efforts to cure their disease. In addition to addressing physical pain and symptoms, hospice responds to the social, financial, legal, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill persons and their loved ones as they define those needs.
The Hospice care team includes the patient's physician, nurse, nursing assistant, medical social worker, chaplain and volunteer. Gaston Hospice emphasizes quality of life and considers the entire family in its program of care. Hospice patients are cared for where they live, whether that happens to be their family home, a long term care facility or Gaston Hospice's own 12-bed inpatient facility, the Robin Johnson House.
Gaston Hospice is a non-profit organization that has served the people of Gaston County since 1981. Hospice care is paid for by the Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefit, private insurance, self-pay or benevolent care funds provided by the generosity of the people of Gaston County. We are a United Way agency.
Gaston Hospice believes
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That dying is a natural process of life,
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That no one should die alone or in pain,
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That patients should live each day to the fullest,
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And that patients and their families should be prepared for death as much as possible.
The New Hope Counseling Center for Grief and Loss is a service of Gaston Hospice available to any persons in Gaston County and surrounding areas who are coping with grief and loss issues. Individuals may be themselves facing a life-threatening illness, they may be related to or friends with someone who is facing a life-threatening illness, or they may have already lost a loved one to any cause of death, whether unexpected or long anticipated. Counseling Center services are available to anyone in the community, regardless of whether or not the deceased was a Gaston Hospice patient.
The Counseling Center staffs qualified grief counselors with masters level education and experience in both clinical and pastoral counseling. It is the counselor's goal to support people as they sort through their feelings of grief in ways that are healthy and healing.
Counseling Center services include: an intitial needs assessment at no charge to plan an appropriate course of action to best assist each individual or family with their grief process, individual and family counseling, weekly informal support groups, special needs support group, grief education services, community resource referrals and Butterflies, a special program for grieving children.
