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"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."- Author Unknown

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River Region Hospice House

River Region Hospice House

Choose treatment at your house or our free-standing home-like Hospice House.


River Region Hospice

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507 Upstream Street
River Ridge, LA 70123
Referral Line: 504-739-1205
Fax: 504-739-3993
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Michael C. Clark, MSW, LCSW

River Region Hospice

Providing care to patients and families facing serious illness in South Louisiana in your home or ours.

It is the mission of River Region Hospice to provide an individualized program of physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and practical care for people facing the final phases of a life-limiting illness with an emphasis on controlling pain and other symptoms either in the home, at the hospice house, or another facility.

The program is reflective of an ideal of caring that emphasizes comfort and dignity, allowing hospice beneficiaries the ability to maintain independence as long as possible while remaining in familiar surroundings.  Hospice care is centered on the patient, family, and caregiver.  Personnel respect and respond to the differences in family lifestyles, values, and wishes.

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