HOSPICE CARE
In these precious moments of life, your focus as a family member, or patient diagnosed with a terminal illness should not be on advance care planning and comfort management. The services offered in hospice care address the patient's physical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs; providing a fully comprehensive care plan that allows patients and family members alike the ability to focus on celebrating life.
Is Hospice Care Appropriate at this Time?
Hospice is appropriate if you have been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness by your physician, and they have determined that you are likely in the "last stages of life" (this is often measured in weeks or months rather than in years).
Additionally, you are no longer seeking care or treatments aimed at potentially curing your illness (often--but not always--because all options have already been exhausted). Instead, your goal is to manage the pain and other symptoms and receive support for yourself, your family, and your caregivers.
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Where the Care Happens
Care is provided in the comfort of your own home. A skilled care team is assigned scheduled visits that work with your schedule and preferences.
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What to Expect from Hospice
During your final months, weeks, and days of life, it is your family, friends, or hired caregivers that will be taking care of you. Our role as your Care Team will be to provide support for you and each of these people.
Hospice utilizes a coordinated team approach. Led by doctors and nurses, our staff undergoes specialized training in hospice care and meets regularly to review, evaluate and direct individualized care plans. With your trust and comfort in mind, we work together to ensure that your medical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs are taken care of.
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Paying for the Service
Hospice is a Medicare, federally-funded, program. As such, many state Medicaid plans and private health insurance plans pay for hospice.
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In choosing the Medicare hospice benefit, the patient agrees to give up curative treatments and procedures, in return for all the services and supplies that hospice provides:
health-care services, social/psychological services, spiritual services, medical staff on-call, and delivery of supplies.
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