OVERVIEW OF PEDIATRIC SERVICES
Genesys Home & Hospice Care is committed to providing the best interdisciplinary health care possible to the infants, children, and adolescents we serve. Our specially trained pediatric team of nurses, therapists, social workers, home health aides, and dietitians are on hand to provide the services in accordance to the child’s physician’s plan of care. Services are provided in consideration of each family’s daily routine, teaching them to become confident caregivers.

SERVICE AREA
Genesys Home & Hospice Care service area includes the following counties: Genesee, Lapeer and Shiawassee, Oakland & Livingston north of M-59, and Saginaw-Tuscola south of M-46. We serve patients at their place of residence, whether it be their own home, assisted living, or foster care facility.

PEDIATRIC PALLATIVE CARE
The mission of the Genesys Home & Hospice Care PINWHEELS Program is to improve quality of life for infants and children living with serious illnesses and their families through supportive care.


Our Goal
To maintain comfort, function and dignity according to your child’s developmental stage and your family’s unique needs and expectations. The focus is on the child instead of the disease so that physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs are addressed, and all gain the strength and ability to cope; thus improving your quality and quantity of time together.

Who Qualifies
Any child living in our service area from birth to 18 years determined to living with a serious illness as determined by the child’s physician.

Pinwheels is Supportive Care
Supportive care uses a team approach that includes your child and family as members. Nurses, social workers, therapists, clergy, and volunteers combine their skills to help your family provide living care to your loved one under the direction of your child’s physician.

Supportive care complements standard home care by enabling treatment of the whole person; offering friendship as well as medical care according to your child’s needs and wishes.

PEDIATRIC HOSPICE
Genesys Hospice provides comprehensive, compassionate care for infants, children, and adolescents and their families in the advanced stages of progressive illness.

Our highly trained staff understand that children are not little adults. They have unique needs and different levels of cognitive awareness that require special skills to help them through their journey. Social Workers seasoned in the science of anticipatory grief assist parents, caregivers, and siblings that are a part of this journey. These Social Workers are invaluable to the family as they move caregivers towards acceptance and assist with funeral arrangements – a task much more difficult when dealing with the death of a child.

The Pediatric Hospice staff establishes a trusting relationship with the child and family that helps put everyone at ease while they fit into the family’s routine. Pediatric Hospice Nurses provide expert pain and symptom management under the direction of the child’s physician. Nurses Aides assist with personal care. Volunteers who have undergone additional pediatric training provide respite and companionship to patients and families, as well as transportation services. Spiritual Care assists as needed, working with the family’s clergy to make sure any spiritual issues are taken care of.

Therapists are available if needed to provide physical, occupational, speech, and nutrition services.