Tranquility Hospice - Tranquility Hopsice LLC, is a locally woman owned Tulsa hospice care provider. The mission of the company comes from the owner's personal experience in the hospice field to provide the best quality care for each patient.

HOSPICE CONCEPT

Hospice is a concept of caring derived from medieval times, symbolizing a place where travelers, pilgrims and the sick, wounded or dying could find rest and comfort. The contemporary hospice offers a comprehensive program of care to patients and families facing a life threatening illness. Hospice is primarily a concept of care, not a specific place of care.

Hospice emphasizes palliative rather than curative treatment; quality rather than quantity of life. The dying are 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.

Hospice care is provided to patients who have a limited life expectancy. Although most hospice patients are cancer patients, hospices accept 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 homelike setting.

Tranquility Hospice
is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)

Tranquility Hospice
has a BBB Rating of A-
Member since December
2006

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tranquility Hospice
was voted "Best of the Best" for the hospice category in the Oklahoma Magazine July, 2010.

Tranquility Hospice
featured in the Oklahoma's Nursing Times July, 2010.
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Tranquility Hospice
featured in the Oklahoma Magazine June, 2010.
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Tranquility Hospice LLC, is a locally woman owned hospice care provider. The mission of the company comes from the owner's personal experience in the hospice field to provide the best quality care for each patient.

Nikia

"Our patients share a common vision to be free of pain, to be surrounded by a caring medical team and to have their wishes known and honored." Nikia Denny, Owner

Read more about Nikia in the May issue of the Oklahoma Magazine. Read more...

Testimonials

"Kind, caring, wonderful angels of mercy." Wilma A., Tulsa, OK.

"I found your employees to be attentive, caring and compassionate." Thomas C., Tulsa, OK.

"I have to relate one of the most significant events of 2009.
We were singing at senior suites and after, a daughter of a patient came up to Kelly, and said "my father has Alzhiemers and doesn't know my name, yet he sang all the words to the songs, you made my Christmas"

That is why I love my job as a volunteer and all of you!, Rick- Volunteer, Tulsa, OK.

"I work for Tranquility Hospice and have learned much about the hospice industry and all I can say is that they really care about the patients and focus on quality not quantity. The owner is woman with a medical background and she personally visits all the patients and ensures her team provides the type of care she would. I am proud to be employed at company that gives so much to people and really cares. I feel blessed! The Tranquility team is the best!", Current Employee, Tulsa, OK.

Hospice History

The word hospice comes from the Latin word hospes: meaning to host a guest or stranger. In medieval times a hospice was a shelter for weary travelers, a temporary home for pregnant women and a place for people in poor health or in need of recovery. It was a place to go for lodging and care and was usually run by a religious order. That concept gave birth to the modern day hospice, which offers a humane alternative in the delivery of health care services and an organized program of comprehensive care for people facing an end of life situation.

The first modern day hospice, St. Christopher’s, was founded in 1967 in London, England by an Englishwoman named Cicely Saunders. Saunders, who trained as a nursing student during World War II, witnessed much suffering and death. In her experiences, she realized pain control and dying with dignity were things that really mattered at the end of life. She also recognized various types of pain: physical pain and the psychological and spiritual pain of death itself. Her awareness inspired her to become the pioneer of the hospice movement. In 1974, Florence Wald, an American nurse, adopted this end-of-life care concept and opened a hospice in New Haven, Connecticut.

Congress officially recognized the benefits of hospice care in the early 1980's and enacted the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act in the Medicare Bill (1982). The following year, Hospice of Charles County was incorporated in the state of Maryland and was granted a 501 (c)(3) non-profit status by the Internal Revenue Service. At first, the organization was staffed and managed by a small group of nurses and other individuals who volunteered their time and talents to help dying patients and their family through a difficult time. The organization slowly evolved into a more structured program that melded the skills of medical professionals with the passion of volunteers to create an effective program that helps patients manage pain so they may enjoy a better quality of life.

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