The contemporary hospice offers a comprehensive program of care to patients and families facing a life-threatening illness. Gateway Hospice accepts anyone regardless of age or type of illness. These patients have also made a decision to spend their last months at home or in a home-like setting.

Gateway Hospice emphasizes palliative rather than curative treatment; quality rather than quantity of life. The dying person is comforted. Professional medical care is given, and sophisticated symptom relief provided. The patient and family are both included in the care plan and emotional, spiritual and practical support is given based on the patient's wishes and family's needs. Trained volunteers can offer respite care for family members as well as meaningful support to the patient.

Hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice provides personalized services and a caring community so that patients and families can attain the necessary preparation for a death that is satisfactory to them.

Those involved in the process of dying have a variety of physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs. The nature of dying is so unique that the goal of the hospice team is to be sensitive and responsive to the special requirements of each individual and family.