New hospice unit at Peninsula Hospital Center

A new state-of-the-art inpatient hospice unit at Peninsula Hospital Center will help out people in need throughout Queens and Nassau.
The Center, which is an affiliate of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, will be collaborating with Hospice Care Network to serve the community. The facility opened to the public on July 21 with the official ribbon cutting ceremony set for sometime in the fall.
The new unit is located in the west wing of the Hospital Center and features seven single rooms and a large family room. This facility will offer patients a comfortable, private setting where they can spend quality time with their families and loved ones.
“It is a great privilege for all of us at Hospice Care Network to be able to offer local residents a place they can go that is close to home where they will receive compassionate and skillful care,” says Maureen Hinkelman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hospice Care Network.
The new unit will be dedicated to the memory of Barbara Eisenstadt, a Rockaway community activist who passed away in the fall of 2007.
According to the Center, the addition of this new inpatient hospice unit will continue their mission of helping to care for all the individuals in the community.
“Peninsula Hospital Center has provided comprehensive quality health care — close to home — for the residents of the Rockaways and neighboring communities for more than a century,” said Robert V. Levine, PHC President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are very pleased to now add another dimension to our provision of care which will allow the patient and family the time to focus on each other — when time matters the most.”
Hospice Care Network is a nonprofit organization that has served patients and their families in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties with care and compassion since 1988. Care is provided by an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, home health aides, dieticians, pastoral care providers, bereavement counselors and trained volunteers.
For more information, visit www.hospicecarenetwork.org or call 800-2-HOSPICE.