For Patients & Families For Providers For Volunteers Giving to Hospice News & Events Grief Counseling Advance Directives
Patients For Patients & Familes

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:
click on a photo for a larger image.

   
   

Home | About Us | Contact Us | Careers
Serving Northern Indiana | 111 Sunnybrook Court | South Bend, IN 46637 | 574-243-3100 | E-mail Us