Timothy Moorhouse BA Dipl Arch, author of the Hospice Design Manual is a leading authority on the design of in-patient hospice facilities. He has traveled extensively visiting hospices in Great Britain and throughout the United States to analyze the complex workings of a hospice facility, both large and small, and to discover the problems some existing hospice facilities face and how to overcome them.
Mr. Moorhouse now offers a consultancy service, both internationally, and in the United States to assist those planning an in-patient hospice facility to ensure the creation of a well planned facility.
Phone: 207-483-4712
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The word “Hospice” is French from the Latin ‘hospitium’, meaning host or hospitality. These are the key words in understanding the difference between traditional nursing home care and hospice care. To design a building which provides true hospice care we need to design one which offers hospitality to those who enter, a building which can allow the staff to take care of seriously ill people in an efficient manner, yet appear non-institutional and comforting to those entering as patients or their caregivers. HOSPICE – a facility or program designed to provide a caring environment for supplying the physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill. – Webster’sHOSPICE – a program or facility that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional, spiritual, social and financial needs of terminally ill patients at a facility or at the patients home.– The American Heritage
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