HOSPICE PHILOSOPHY:

South Coast Hospice Association is a non-profit organisation committed to serving the needs of the community of the UGU Health District in KwaZulu-Natal, using an interdisciplinary team approach across all our programmes, working in partnerships and contributing to the strategic goals of the Department of Health 

We provide Palliative Care and Support:

• HOSPICE affirms life.
• “Hospice exists to provide support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable diseases, so that they may live as fully and as comfortably as possible”
• Hospice recognises dying as a normal process and neither hastens nor postpones death.
• Hospice exists in the hope and belief, that through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring community, sensitive to their Needs, patients and families may be free to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them.
• Hospice recognises grief as a normal response to loss and therefore, support to the families continues into the “bereavement period.”

Our philosophy:

• Acknowledges that ethical dilemmas may arise;
• Will not take ethical decisions individually or without the guidance of relevant professional team members and in keeping with legal and moral guidelines.