VITAS Healthcare

Vivian12

We used VITAS during the last month that mother was alive. There was like a spiritual counselor who came over, and she had a great deal of patience. She was wonderful at a time that I really needed it. The nurses were wonderful too. We had doctors come in. They always responded to my mother's needs and the needs of the family to make that situation a little bit more bearable. My mom died with a caregiver at her side and with the family there. We didn't have to take her to the hospital and leave her alone in a strange place. When my mom passed away and then I called in; everyone rushed and everything got done. Even the part where they took my mom away was very efficient; it was quick, and they were very trained. Let me tell you that the experience was wonderful because of the people that were around me that helped me out at that time of need. There was a social worker that was assigned to my mother's case at the beginning, and she tried to take my mother away from us and put her in a home. At that point I sat down and I told her that the reason that I had hospice was not to put my mother in a home but was to keep her at home with us. That lady would not listen to reason, and she was really mean; it’s almost as if she was getting money for having my mother removed from the house and put somewhere else. Then the supervisor came, everything was straightened out, and everything was great after that. The second social worker they gave us was wonderful. I definitely and I always recommend VITAS.

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