Cherokee Regional Hospice

Cherokee Regional Hospice provides supportive care to people in the final stage of life's journey in Cherokee, Iowa. The focus is on comfort and quality of life rather than cure, with services extending across a 35-mile radius that includes Marcus, Holstein, Aurelia, Sutherland, Primghar, Meriden, Cleghorn, Correctionville, Quimby, Sioux Rapids, Storm Lake, and surrounding areas.

The hospice team—highly skilled staff and physicians—collaborates to provide pain management and symptom control alongside emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual support for patients and their families. Care is thoughtfully designed to maintain the quality of remaining life, recognizing dying as a normal part of life while neither postponing nor hastening death.

Cherokee Regional Hospice serves people who choose comfort-focused care rather than curative treatment, including those with end-stage conditions such as cancer, heart disease, pulmonary disease, AIDS, ALS, Alzheimer's disease, and chronic renal disease. The organization also provides bereavement hospice services for family members who have lost a loved one.

The hospice operates with a philosophy that appropriate care, surrounded by a caring community sensitive to individual needs, allows patients and families to mentally and spiritually prepare for death and achieve peace. The organization recently received a 5-star rating from Medicare.gov based on caregiver survey results and has been regularly designated as a Top 5% Premier Performer from SHP based on hospice caregiver satisfaction.