Geisinger HomeCare & Hospice Special Care is an in-home nursing service, provided to people with cancer and/or other advanced illnesses, who choose a curative treatment approach or choose not to embrace the hospice philosophy.

Special Care is for those who:

• Have an advanced illness (cancer and non-cancer)
• Need advanced pain management
• Need advanced symptom management
• Seek chemotherapy and/or radiation
• Need education on the hospice concept of care
• May vary in age (infancy through adulthood)
• Meet HomeCare admission criteria

Special Care Team nurses are:

• Specially trained in advanced pain management
• Specially trained in illness and symptom control
• Highly qualified in administration of home chemotherapy
• Experts in providing knowledge regarding the hospice concept of care and service
• Caring and supportive throughout the transition period

Contact Us

Geisinger's HomeCare & Hospice Special Care Team
(888) 634-6715 or (570) 271-5598