My mom was transferred to this incredibly beautiful and serene hospice center and somehow in the…read morecare of the wonderful staff and volunteers improved enough to be transferred to a great adult family home. Both staff and volunteers at this hospice center are true angels. My family is eternally indebted. The Gene & Irene Wockner Hospice Center is the only freestanding hospice center in King and Snohomish counties. The beautiful Cape Cod-style facility was designed to be as home-like as possible, consistent with safety, security and excellent medical care. The Center's 15 private patient rooms include sleeping spaces for visitors, a private bath with shower, TV and a wardrobe closet. Each room opens to an outdoor patio with a view of the park-like gardens. The gardens include a lush courtyard with a waterfall, a children's play area and walking paths through the rose and alpine gardens. Families and friends can visit at any time, and children are very welcome. The comfortable family rooms throughout the Center are furnished with sofas and chairs, TV, desks, and telephones. The main family room has a children's corner designed to offer little ones comfort and a place to play. Each wing also has a full kitchen, which allows families to cook special meals if they so choose. The Center is named for Gene and Irene Wockner, whose initial support provided the resources needed to research and plan for the Center. The Wockner family's generosity continues to provide for Evergreen Hospice Services.

My father recently spent the last 10 days of his life at this beautiful and comforting hospice…read morecenter. His care was amazing and his death was with dignity and grace. The nurses and caregivers as well as the social workers made my father so peaceful and helped our family through this painful process. I will be always grateful for the love and support my father and my family received during this difficult time. Thank you so very much.

We are here for loved ones end of life care. When the nurses and other staff members come in the…read moreroom, they are talking to the resident telling him their name and what the staff member is doing. They also keep the family informed of resident's needs and medication changes. They ensure resident and family are comfortable. We are very lucky that our dog is able to be here. The room is cozy. There is a community kitchen. living room, playground, and large sitting area for families. A wonderful, stress free setting for a difficult time.

They are not in the healing business, they are in the drug and dying business., which they call…read morecompassionate pain management. If you have no pain, they still insist on the patient taking their lineup of dangerous medications. They try to convince family members that their drugs are safe and required in spite of no pain. Their care is little more than a downhill roller coaster to death. It's like they want the patient to die as fast as possible, like they have an agenda or quota to meet. With all the Hospice Medicare fraud happening in the US today, $22 B, how is it possible to trust any company offering Hospice care to your loved ones.

I really enjoy working with Providence Hospice. After hospital discharge, we were given a list of…read morehospice services. I chose Providence because I was pretty pleased with OT, PT, SP previously. Once we were signed up, everyone showed up and gave us the spiel of who and what will happen. I appreciate that there's a 24hr hotline because we had to call a few times. We were able to get the equipment pretty quickly and emergency meds. I think everyone there has been so nice. They were careful with physical handling and very compassionate about what we were dealing with. I met with Erin, Kevin, Mary, Jervaise -- all so great - so caring and gentle.

My advice is to interview as many hospice providers as you can in your area. We chose Providence…read morebecause we had such a great experience with their home physical and occupational therapist before my husband transitioned to hospice care. The hospice arm was a completely different experience. They appeared to be overwhelmed and understaffed. Our experience was terrible. End of life care is hard enough, this provider made it awful.

I am interested in moving to Skyline but can not believe they had a sales rep call me who does not…read moreknow the basic facts about your institution. Honestly - she does not know how much the buy in is and if a percentage is returned to my heirs after my death. Honestly - If I am to give you over One Million Dollars, you need to do better on your end. PLEASE have some respect for your clients! Skyline has been highly recommended AND I have friends who live there. SHAME ON YOU!

My husband and I were in a bike accident when our tandem bike's front tire had a blowout and we hit…read morethe street hard. He escaped with minor injuries but unfortunately not me, I had to have pins inserted to hold my pelvis together, plus a total hip replacement. I also had a broken collarbone and 5 broken ribs. After 11 days at Harborview Medical Center we found Skyline thanks to recommendations from condo neighbors. We were amazed at the quality of care I received. I was at Skyline another 32 days. For the first ten days there I couldn't even get out of bed. But the Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists were outstanding in working with me, bit by bit, to start moving. It was complicated by my broken collarbone, so I could not use a walker. Holding a coffee cup was the maximum effort I could use my arm for. I also could only put 50% of my weight on my injured leg. That didn't stop them from finding ways to help me learn to get out of bed, then stand, then walk with a cane in a way that still protected my arm and leg. 3 weeks after the accident I still hadn't gotten out of bed. After 4 weeks I started to walk with the cane and the skills they provided. 5 weeks after the accident the doctor cleared me to use both arms and legs with no limitations, and the PTs and OTs quickly got me walking 50 feet one day, then 100 the next, and so on. 6 weeks from the accident and I was ready to go home, and able to walk so well that within just a few more days I could walk without the walker, using the skills I had learned. In addition to an absolutely fantastic rehab team that worked with me six days a week (on many days for two hour-long sessions), they provided me with caring nursing staff and a staff doctor who spent one hour with me on our first meeting -- who gets that anymore? -- and unhurried visits several times after that. Skyline also provided a private room, a very clean and pleasant environment, and meals that were far, far above the usual institutional standard. With fairly limited things to look forward to each day, it was comforting to know that there were meals coming that I was actually excited to have served to me. As I slowly got stronger I was able to walk on the wide carpeted hallways and then outdoors on the several terraces that overlook the city. The fourth floor one was particularly nice as it has an extensive flower garden. In my month-long stay I never encountered anything but competence and a caring attitude. I don't recommend having an accident like mine, but if you do you will find Skyline a terrific place to recover your health and confidence in yourself. It will long have a special place in my heart.

With a Little Help is a remarkable agency that customizes in-home care for your needs…read more recovering from a broken neck. I need help with bathing, dressing, meal prep, light housekeeping, and completion of some errands. Their staff anticipate your needs, and check in with you to make certain that the job that they have done meets your expectations. In addition to being excellent at the tasks, they did, the two primary nurses assigned to me were exceptional people. They were bright, kind hearts, and were clearly in the right field.

I'm taking the time to write a rather long review because I want to share with you the wonderful,…read morelife-changing support we've received from the care agency, With A Little Help. I was referred to With A Little Help by a friend of mine who is a hospice nurse. He actually gave me the names of three agencies, and I called them all. The first two had a corporate vibe, and sent me directly into a voicemail black hole. It was days before I heard back. When I called With A Little Help, within seconds, I was talking with Kacie, one of the owners, who was so kind and spent all of the time I needed talking with me about our situation and care needs. By the end of the phone call, we had a plan for an intake evaluation, and just a couple of days later, a new care team was in place...and just like that, the stress and worry that had been accumulating over many months lifted. This is just one example of the many, many I could share about the excellent care With A Little Help offers. They aren't a corporate-care behemoth. They are local, owner run, and some of the most caring people I've met in a long time. Kacie and Paul, the owners, worked with us to find the caregivers that are the best fit for our situation. The caregivers are highly skilled, professional, and compassionate. All of them have giant hearts. Some words that come to mind when talking about With A Little Help: Professional Flexible Kind Collaborative Communicative Compassionate Responsive Punctual Attuned For us, With a Little Help has been something of a miracle. I wholeheartedly recommend them to you for your care needs.

I actually wrote to the company to let them know how happy we were with the help we got from a…read moreHeartland Home Health Care nurse recently. My husband had open-heart surgery in January at the University of Washington Medical Center and due to a diabetes-related wound complication, was admitted to the hospital for a second stay for initiation of wound-vac therapy. They sent us home with home-health nursing arrangements for changing the dressings. The hospital staff did not consult us about our preferences and made these arrangements for us, presenting them as the only option. Honestly, I was very concerned about what felt like a real violation of our privacy, and I did not want to have a nurse in our home. However, there really was no way to make the timing work and to secure arrangements in a wound-care clinic, so we reluctantly agreed to go along with the plan. Mary Bakker showed up at our house on Sunday and quickly changed my mind. She was professional, kind, and respectful. I did not feel uncomfortable at all about having her in our house. She was careful about doing the admission, medical plan, and medication-tracking paperwork accurately and explained things to me clearly (John was not interested in the paperwork, and she didn't force him to participate). Before beginning the treatment, Mary talked to John and I, listened carefully to our concerns, and wanted to know exactly what had and had not been working with the previous wound-vac dressings that he'd had. John had had a terrible experience with the first wound-vac dressing change in the hospital (the nurse refused to give him pain medication as ordered and it was very traumatic), and she was sympathetic and reassured John before she started. She also gave him a lot of autonomy in the process; he was able to remove the old dressing himself, which was the part that the hospital nurse had done in such a painful way. That was very helpful! She did a brilliant job changing the wound-vac dressing; it didn't leak as some of the previous ones in the hospital had, and it was also more comfortable than many of them. She shared information about the wound, what to expect as it healed, and when we would know we were done with the wound-vac unit, information we'd tried to get from hospital staff but never managed to learn from them (and we got the sense that many of them didn't know). The only feedback I'd give Heartland about how to improve is to provide their nurses with better gloves; the cheap vinyl ones that Mary had stuck to the dressing; the nitrile ones that the hospital had given me were much better. Better gloves are a tiny investment that would help the nurses perform better for their patients. Because John wanted to go back to work, we ended up getting the rest of the wound-vac dressing changes done at the UWMC wound clinic. This was in no way a reflection of the services we got from Heartland. We were both pleasantly surprised and if one of us ever needs home health care in the future, I will be a lot less concerned about it than I was this time.

This is now twice that Heartland has worked with me after a Total Knee Replacement…read more The first time was in March of 2010 and now with the replacement I had done on 12/21/11. I have not had an easy ride with the last replacement (thank god we only have two knees). Sick in the hospital, 2 units of blood, lots of pain and sent home over a long holiday weekend without complete pain control. I was a basket case and I live alone. If it had not been for Heartland, (Ronnie and Stacey) I think that I would have ended up back at ER and back in the hospital. Their great support and care have kept my sprits up and help give me the support to work on the painful recovery from my second not so fun total knee replacement. So glad that Heartland has been there again for me during my recovery. They get top ratings in my book. Suzy

UPDATE; Interesting that I didn't say who my loved one was,…read moreso they know what happened. Going farther with this... there is a review just like mine from 8 yrs ago. So they say they value feedback, 8 yrs to change their system yet still happening. a 2 week wait list and never showed up, closest date they had was the day after persons death. Several phone calls logged with no recommendations saying to go to another hospice My loved one suffered needlessly and I still have nightmares CALL OTHER HOSPICE PLACES especially if you are in snohomish county so they can be closer

They are now known as Hospice of the NorthWest....All I can say is OMG and thank you God. If they…read morehad not been their when we needed them recently. Don't know how I would of made it thru a very trying time. Absolutely an incredible team of dedicated individuals. They basically take care of everything, allowing you to take a step back and deal with the pending loss of a loved one. When you need them they will be there for you and your loved one who is trying to exit this life peacefully.

I was evaluated by an OT named Cory several weeks ago. dispite my medical complications and…read moreinjuries he told me he had no need to consult my medical chart and dismissed my bath aide without any input. said my medical chart was.too long to look at. This was just a start. very dismissive and extremely unhelpful. Avoid him if possible or use another agency

I was referred to EvergreenHealth Home Care for hospice care for my loved one. Contacting them was…read morean easy process and they made all the arrangements within 2 days after learning of the urgency. The social worker came to assess the situation, went over the binder with all the information and contacts, and gave me the support I needed. The bed and all other equipment were delivered on a Wednesday after calling them Tuesday morning. Nurse Venus came over on Wednesday evening to familiarize me with the process - from medication to adjusting the bed, changing diapers, etc. She was very respectful and showed a lot of compassion, understanding and patience. I was a wreck and she walked me through what to expect and gave me all the contact numbers I may need. My loved one was only in hospice care for a day, but the care and compassion shown to me by nurse Venus and the staff at the office helped me through this most difficult time. Months after my loved one passed, they continue to send me materials on grief along with their program schedule for counseling. I highly recommend EvergreenHealth Home Care.