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Groundbreaking Ceremony for new Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care Inpatient Center

Seasons Hospice Foundation and Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care will be celebrating the groundbreaking of  its new 15-bed inpatient center at 597 Randolph Avenue in Milton. The new inpatient care center is designed to celebrate the traditional New England style architecture while creating a warm and caring home-like environment for the hospice patients and their families.  

Hospice care is typically provided in the comfort of the patient’s home. On occasion, when pain or symptoms cannot be adequately managed in the home setting, the patient may benefit from a short-term stay at the Seasons Hospice Inpatient Center where the focus is on the patient and family and their individual needs.  In a uniquely serene, comfortable, and medically supported environment, patients, surrounded by loved ones, can access the highest level of hospice care to manage their symptoms. Once the pain or symptoms are controlled, the patient can be transitioned to home or to another setting for extended care.  There is no inpatient center of this kind in the Boston area that is exclusively providing this level of care.

Seasons Hospice Foundation, a national charitable foundation, has purchased the land and will build the inpatient center and lease to Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care who will direct the clinical operations and manage the facility. A team of highly-skilled healthcare professionals, which includes physicians (certified in hospice and palliative medicine), skilled nurses, certified nurse assistants, social workers, music therapists, chaplains, hospice aides and volunteers will be available to help patients overcome the complex challenges of symptom management and psychosocial needs that may occur at end of life.

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Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care will be celebrating the groundbreaking of its new inpatient center on May 15, 2014 at the corner of Randolph Ave and Reedsdale Rd in Milton. The groundbreaking will take place from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and will be followed by a reception and light lunch.

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