Hospice No Food Or Water
Hospice care is a distinct type of care that aims to improve the quality of life of patients and caregivers in the final stages of a life-limiting disease. It offers compassionate care to people suffering from incurable diseases, focusing on the mind, body, and spirit. The human body requires large amounts of water and can […]
Hospice Criteria For Heart Failure
These guidelines are intended to supplement a physician’s best clinical judgment when determining hospice eligibility. Due to comorbidities or rapid functional decline, a patient who does not meet these guidelines may still be eligible for hospice care. If a patient meets the criteria below, they are considered in the terminal stage of cardiac disease. Criteria […]
Hospice Criteria For Pulmonary Fibrosis
Are you a patient, a caregiver, or a family member? Learn how Oasis Hospice can assist patients suffering from end-stage COPD and other types of lung disease. Hospice eligibility criteria for COPD and lung disease are as follows: Important Characteristics Dyspnea at rest and/or with light exertion while receiving oxygen therapy Dyspnea that is unresponsive […]
Bladder Cancer Palliative Care
Palliative care services have tended to be needed because of substantial physical complaints in persons with terminal bladder cancer. The increasing use of cross-sectional imaging is discovering incurable diseases much earlier when there are typically no physical symptoms. However, the psychological and spiritual impact of a terminal diagnosis will always be substantial and assistance from […]
Pancreatic Cancer Hospice Time to Live
Pancreatic cancer might be difficult to identify initially due to its nonspecific signs. Unfortunately, with an estimated 56,770 new cases per year, patients do experience distressing symptoms at the end of life if they are not treated effectively. If you are a family caregiver for someone who has pancreatic cancer, it is critical to understand […]
Palliative Care For Liver Cancer
The liver is a substantial organ in the human body. It aids in digestion, filters hazardous compounds from the blood, and produces substances that thicken the blood and aid in the formation of clots. When a person has the liver disease (cirrhosis), normal liver tissue is replaced by scar tissue, causing the liver to malfunction. […]
Harrah’s Joliet
In Joliet, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, there is a riverboat casino called Harrah’s Joliet, which is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. There are 1,138 slot machines, 204 hotel rooms, and four restaurants at the casino. It was in 1990 that the city launched a downtown revitalization project known as Joliet City Center. According […]
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen (DQ) is an American network of soft serve ice cream and fast food restaurants owned by Berkshire Hathaway. International Dairy Queen Inc. also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The first DQ opened in Joliet, Illinois. Sherb Noble ran it and it first opened on June 22, 1940. It served soft serve ice cream […]
Louis Joliet Mall
Louis Joliet Mall (Westfield) Louis Joliet Mall in Joliet, Illinois. This shopping center has JCPenney, Macy’s (previously Marshall Field’s), a 14-screen Cinemark movie theater, and two vacant anchors from Carson’s and Sears. Cajun Boil & Bar and TGI Fridays are among its eateries. Louis Joliet has Macy’s and JCPenney on one level and Bergner-Weise and […]
Chicagoland Speedway
Chicagoland Speedway is a 1.5 mile tri-oval track in Joliet, Illinois. Until 2019, the speedway held NASCAR races, including the Cup Series. Until 2010, the track hosted the IndyCar Series, with several thrilling finishes, including the closest in IndyCar history. NASCAR owns and operates the speedway. In late 1995, Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Tony George […]
