Quality Patient Care - We provide palliative home-based and in-patient care, and other support services for people with life-threatening illnesses, and their families. • Caring Support - Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. • Palliative Expertise - Our inter-disciplinary teams situated in Houghton and Soweto, comprises of Doctors, professional nurses, therapists, social workers, spiritual & bereavement counsellors and volunteers. • Accredited - HospiceWits is an independent Non Profit organisation, accredited with the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa and Cohsasa.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Northmed is a 29-bed Frail Care facility located in the North Riding AH suburb of Randburg, where we provide 24-hour personal multidisciplinary nursing care to frail and elderly individuals.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

La Vie Care is an independent group of healthcare facilities. Our goal is to deliver the highest-quality, personalised care to each individual resident while creating a homely and nurturing environment. Our world-class facilities follow a holistic wellness approach and are staffed by highly-skilled healthcare professionals, whom are dedicated to provide the best quality service.

Serious illnesses can cause physical symptoms, such as pain, nausea, fatigue, depression or anxiety. Stepping Stone Hospice provides specialised care, focusing on the reduction of pain and symptoms of life-threatening illness. Palliative care is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual (WHO, 2003) . Care can be provided in the home, hospital or In-Patient-Unit. *Regular home visits by the Hospice Sister assures that the need is re-assessed on a regular basis as the patient's condition changes. Hospice Care includes pain and symptom control; nursing management i. e. how to deal with incontinence, wound dressing, prevention of bed sores, colostomy care.