Our goal is to provide the highest quality hospice care possible with a skilled team of professionals who have dedicated their careers to the care and support of patients and families as they make their end of life journey.
BeLoved Hospice is honored to provide a woman-focused hospice program for Portland area patients experiencing end-of-life diseases that are, inherently exclusively to women. This care focuses not only on the physical symptoms but also on symptoms that can be uncomfortable to discuss with their partners and male healthcare providers. In addition, this program uniquely focuses not only on the woman at the center of the care, but also extends to her loved ones, partner/spouse, children, extended family, and friends.
Sadly, many of the cancers and diseases that affect women are caught when the disease has already progressed to late stages of diagnosis and are often beyond the reach of curative treatment. Diseases like ovarian and cervical cancer are not only devastating, but can also manifest into painful symptoms where, in some cases, suffering becomes prevalent at end of life. In addition to pain and symptom management, these women fight dragons in their quest for a cure, often with devastating side effects such as hair loss, loss of estrogen, mastectomy, and total hysterectomy often causing body image disruption. Many of the side effects of treatment take a toll on women physically, emotionally, spiritually, and often these side effects carry over into other manifestations such as depression and anxiety as well as relationship struggles.
Finally, women have often spent most of their lives in caregiver roles caring for children and other family members, often to the neglect of their own self-care. Female patients are less likely to be receptive to additional care and support until they literally reach the point of exhaustion and lack of ability. Within this deep inner strength, BeLoved Hospice seeks to unite these patients with our own female providers, care staff, counselors and aides who understand the unique nature that belongs to women everywhere.
While BeLoved Hospice will continue to provide quality end-of-life care and symptom management, as we do with all patients, the Felicity Women’s Care Team is dedicated to providing the intensive care, emotional counseling, and spiritual support dedicated to our fellow mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, friends, and women.
