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VITTAAS differenntiates itself within the hospicce specialty by providing
advanced heart disease or aadvanced cancer, VITadvanced cancer, TAAS offers palliative
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palliative and comfort-focused solutions thatt other hospice
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only radiation, interventioons and medications to ease symptoms,
providers throughout South Florida do not.
relieve pain and improve qquality of life in a patient’s final months,
While hospice care’s mission remains on commfort-focused care rather
weeks and days.
than curative care, the VITTAAS medical teamss provide specialized
VITTAAS is the nation’s leadiing provider of end-of-life care, not only
services to ensure patients with advanced illnness can remain
because of its presence in 114 states and the District of Columbia,
comfortable and pain-free at home with the best possible support.
but also because it continuues to live up to the four core values that
VITTAAS respiratory therapists, for example, pprovide in-home oxygen
have influenced it since thhe dawn of the hospice movement in the
therapyy,, trach care and compassionate ventillator withdrawal for
US. We
We proudly join our SSouth Florida colleagues in celebrating
National Hospice and Pallliative Care Month.
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