Meet Your Hospice Care Team
When searching for compassionate transitional care, it’s essential to know who will be caring for your loved one. Town Square Hospice brings together local healthcare professionals who understand your community and share a commitment to providing dignified, compassionate support during life’s most important journey.
Our hospice team includes ten essential roles, each contributing specialized skills to enhance the quality of life for patients and their families. Every team member lives and works in the communities we serve, creating authentic connections that make a real difference.
Compassion at Every Step
Medical Leadership
Medical Director
Co-certifies the terminal prognosis with the attending physician and leads our interdisciplinary care team in developing individualized care plans. Provides consultation with other physicians to coordinate comprehensive medical care.
Attending Physician
Co-certifies the terminal prognosis with our medical director, assesses needs, and directs the customized plan of care with the hospice care team. Manages symptoms and prescribes treatments focused on comfort.
Nursing Care
Registered Nurse
Provides compassionate end-of-life care focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life during the patient’s final months. Assesses patients, develops care plans, administers medications, educates patients and families, and offers psychosocial and spiritual support.
Personal Care Support
Hospice Aide
Provides personal care and hygiene for the hospice patient while offering light housekeeping services. Serves as a key point of communication with the care team regarding patient needs and provides essential family support during daily care routines.
Nursing Care
Registered Nurse
Provides compassionate end-of-life care focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life during the patient’s final months. Assesses patients, develops care plans, administers medications, educates patients and families, and offers psychosocial and spiritual support.
Personal Care Support
Hospice Aide
Provides personal care and hygiene for the hospice patient while offering light housekeeping services. Serves as a key point of communication with the care team regarding patient needs and provides essential family support during daily care routines.
Emotional and Social Support
Social Worker
Professionally assesses the emotional, social, and financial needs of the patient and family members. Offers direct counseling and bereavement support while directing referrals to community agencies that enhance patient and family care services.
Chaplain
Professionally assesses the spiritual needs of the patient’s family and provides emotional support and spiritual counseling. Assists with memorial preparations and offers guidance that respects individual beliefs and traditions.
Extended Care Team
Bereavement Coordinator
Develops care plans designed to meet the emotional needs of survivors for 13 months following their loss. Provides grief counseling and healing resources while planning annual memorial services for families.
Volunteers
Professionally trained to provide companionship and support for patients and their families. Offers non-medical respite time for caregivers and remains available for comfort and support during the time of loss and throughout the bereavement period.
Essential Resources
Equipment Services
Ensures durable medical equipment necessary for patient care is 100% covered, including hospital beds, oxygen supplies, and mobility aids that enhance comfort in home or nursing home settings.
Medications
Provides formulary medication necessary to manage symptoms and pain associated with the hospice diagnosis, eliminating financial barriers to essential comfort care.
Local Professionals, Personal Care
Community-Rooted Leadership in Hospice
Our hospice leadership team consists of healthcare professionals who have chosen to make their careers and lives in the communities they serve. This local connection means your care team understands regional values, knows community resources, and maintains relationships that enhance the support available to your family.
Whether your loved one receives care at home, in assisted living, or a nursing home, our team members bring both professional expertise and personal understanding of what matters most in your community.
Coordinated Care Excellence
Every hospice care team member works collaboratively to address the complete needs of each hospice patient and their family. This integrated approach ensures that medical care, personal care, emotional support, and practical assistance work together seamlessly.
While we focus exclusively on hospice services rather than hospice and palliative care, our comprehensive team approach addresses every aspect of comfort and support during this important time.
Featured Team Member: Trevor's Story
Running for a Reason
Trevor, a hospice nurse from Shelbyville, Illinois, exemplifies the compassionate dedication that defines our team. His story has been featured throughout Illinois news as an example of how our team members go above and beyond their professional duties.
Trevor discovered his calling to hospice nursing after witnessing the transformative care his grandmother received during her final days. This experience shaped his understanding that hospice care extends far beyond medical treatment. It’s about loving families through their most vulnerable moments.
When Trevor began caring for a patient living with ALS, he was deeply moved by the patient’s resilience and grace in facing each day. Inspired by this courage, Trevor decided to channel his own dedication into action. He began training for marathons, running early mornings and late nights in his small Illinois community while raising funds for ALS research.
Trevor’s commitment to running for families affected by ALS demonstrates the depth of personal investment our team members bring to their calling. His dedication reflects the same compassion he provides to patients and their families every day, embodying our belief that serving others extends far beyond scheduled visits and medical care.
Your Local Hospice Care Team
Town Square Hospice volunteers and professionals choose this work because they understand that every person deserves compassionate, skilled support during life’s final chapter. Our local team members live in your community, shop in your stores, and share your values because they are your neighbors.
When you choose Town Square Hospice, you’re choosing a team that combines professional excellence with genuine personal commitment to serving patients and their families with dignity, respect, and comprehensive support.
The journey matters. Let us walk beside you.