Inpatient Hospice Services
Hospice House offers patients with
a limited life expectancy and no able care giver an alternative.
A free-standing, residential facility, Hospice House allows patients
to remain in a home-like setting for the last weeks or days of their
life. Hospice House offers:
- a comfortable, home-like environment
- 24-hour-a-day visitation
- 7 private patient rooms
- family room
- spiritual reflection room
- outdoor deck overlooking Juday Creek
- kitchen
- pet visitation
Patient care in Hospice House is provided 24 hours-a-day by a registered
nurse and home health aide. Other members of the Interdisciplinary
Group, including the Hospice medical director, social worker, pastoral
counselor and volunteers, also participate in the patient's care
and are always only a phone call away.
Admission into Hospice House is made without regard to age, gender,
race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, diagnosis or ability
to pay for services. No one is ever turned away due to the inability
to pay. In addition to meeting the hospice care admission criteria,
guidelines for admission to Hospice House include:
- Patients with uncontrolled physical/emotional symptoms requiring
symptom management before returning to the home or other setting.
- Persons without caregivers, or with caregivers who are temporarily
unable to care for the patient while other care giving arrangements
are being made.
- Patients requiring a "respite" level of care under
certain federal and state insurance programs.
The Hospice Interdisciplinary Group meets to discuss the needs of
patients before they enter Hospice House. In consultation with a
patient's family and physician, a decision is reached on the appropriateness
of the patient for entry into Hospice House. Hospice continues to
explore all other support systems before transferring a patient to
Hospice House.
Take a virtual tour of Hospice House:
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