Services
What do we do?
Hospice and palliative care offer a compassionate and comprehensive approach to supporting individuals and their families facing serious or life-limiting illnesses. Palliative care focuses on the whole person—managing physical symptoms while also tending to emotional, social, and spiritual well-being.
This care extends beyond the patient, providing essential support and guidance to families and caregivers during difficult times. Even when a cure is no longer possible, palliative care helps patients live as fully and comfortably as possible.
When the end of life approaches, the hospice team is dedicated to ensuring a peaceful, dignified, and pain-free transition—bringing comfort, respect, and reassurance in life’s final chapter.
Palliative Care
The focus of Palliative Care is to maximise the patient’s quality of life. This includes managing symptoms, discussing goals of care, pros and cons of treatment options, providing extra support and care coordination. Palliative care is provided by a team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists who work together with the patient’s primary care team to provide an extra layer of support. The medical team will continue trying to treat and cure the illness, and palliative care will keep you comfortable.
Hospice Care
The focus of Hospice Care is comfort care rather than cure, assisting with goals of care and planning for end-of-life care. This includes intensive comfort care that relieves pain and symptoms while attending to an individual’s physical, personal, emotional, and spiritual needs. The medical team will work together and focus on the reversible causes of pain and symptoms and will keep you comfortable.
Palliative Care – Treatment Goals
Palliative care focuses on managing symptoms, providing medication education, and supporting patients and families as they navigate the progression of illness. It includes emotional support, education, advance care planning, and, when appropriate, guidance in transitioning to hospice care.
This care should begin at the time of diagnosis and continue throughout treatment and the experience of living with the illness.
Hospice Care – Treatment Goals
The primary goal of hospice care is effective pain and symptom management. The patient remains at the center of care, with an emphasis on comfort, quality of life, and maintaining dignity, respect, and a sense of normalcy.
Hospice care begins when a patient decides to discontinue curative treatments. At this point, the focus shifts from treating the disease to providing relief from pain, symptoms, anxiety, and emotional distress.
Home Based Care
As the preferred choice of most patients, our Home Care programme provides coordinated care in the comfort and familiarity of the individual’s home environment, or place of stay. The Home Care team, coordinated by the Palliative Professional Nurse, works closely with the preferred and/or Hospice doctor, patient and loved- ones to ensure optimum care, support and comfort in meeting the unique needs of each individual. Home Care services include home visits from a Registered Nurse, support, symptom management and counselling for the patient and family.
Who qualifies for our services?
Palliative Care
Anyone living with a chronic illness or disease; available for anyone at any stage of a serious illness with a life expectancy of years.
Hospice Care
Patients with a serious life-limiting or terminal illness support those with a life expectancy of months, not years.
Our services are available to everyone, irrespective of their social, cultural, spiritual, or financial background.
As a registered medical practice with qualified professional staff, we bill medical aids where applicable and available.
All patient situations are unique and thus we fundraise to ensure that everyone can access our medical care, even if it requires the costs to be subsidized up to 100%. No one will be left behind.
With the support of the palliative care team, patients and their families can make the most of the time they have together. The team works to ease anxiety and provide the care and guidance needed to navigate this challenging journey with dignity and comfort.
Get Referred
How do I get referred?
Access to our services as per the criteria in our mission statement can be done as follows:
· Referral by a private medical practitioner
· Referral by a clinic or provincial hospital
· Family or self-referral with a complete medical history
· Palliative care patients will be contacted within 48 hours of referral. Chronic care patients will be contacted within a week of referral. In instances where the patient does not meet our referral criteria, we will suggest and facilitate alternative service providers.
Referral Form
Please download form here
Once you have downloaded the form and completed it,please email it to admin@stbh.org.za
If you have any questions, please contact Beverley Anthony on (043) 721 0051 or email her on admin@stbh.org.za .
Please note:the medical form needs to be signed.
Medical Equipment Hire
Providing our patient with the correct medical equipment to assist in making their lives as comfortable as possible, is part our wholistic service delivery.
We also have medical equipment available on hire to the general public. This helps to sustain our patient care services, and procure additional equipment when the need arise. We stock:
- Wheelchairs
- Hospital Beds
- Crutches
- Shower Chairs
- Urinals/Bed Pans
- Commodes
- Walkers
- Wedges
- Raised Toilet chairs
- Oxygen Machine
Please CONTACT US if you are need of short to medium term equipment rental support.