Quality Hospice Care, Inc. strives to ensure that all those they care for are surrounded by love, compassion, and dignity.
Our philosophy holds that end-of-life care should emphasize quality of life. Hospice is about the living that goes on during the time between the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness and death. In caring for the whole person, not just the disease, hospice brings comprehensive, high-quality care to the home - wherever the patient calls home.
Quality Hospice Care, Inc. does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, or age on admission, treatment, ability to pay, participation it its program, services and activities, or employment.
WHAT IS HOSPICE CARE?
Hospice is not a place but a concept of care that is recognized as the model of quality, compassionate health care delivery for people facing life-limiting illness.
Hospice care utilizes an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals and trained volunteers that address symptom control, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes.
Support, caregiver training, and grief counseling are available for family and loved ones. Bereavement services are available for a year following the death of the patient.
While most hospice services are provided in the home, care is also available in most skilled nursing facilities, residential care settings, and inpatient hospices.
Hospice services are covered under Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurance plans, HMOs, and other managed care organizations.
Hospice allows the illness to follow its natural course. The focus is on caring, not curing.
HOSPICE CARE BENEFIT PERIODS:
A patient in the final phase of life may receive hospice care for as long as necessary when a physician certifies that he or she continues to meet eligibility requirements.
Under the Medicare Hospice Benefit, two 90-day periods of care (a total of six months) are followed by an unlimited number of 60-day periods.
HOSPICE IS THE CARE AMERICANS WANT:
Research by the National Hospice Foundation identifies the top four concerns Americans have surrounding end-of-life care:
Someone to be sure that the patient’s wishes are enforced.
Choice among the types of services the patient can receive.
Pain control tailored to the patient’s wishes.
Emotional support for the patient and family.
Hospice and palliative care addresses the major concerns of most Americans
Hospices now care for over half of all Americans who die from cancer and a growing number of patients with other chronic, life-threatening illnesses, such as: end-stage heart disease, end-stage lung disease, end-stage CVA, end-stage Alzheimer’s, end-stage Parkinson’s, end-stage AIDS, and end-stage kidney disease.
THE HOSPICE CARE TEAM:
Hospice care is provided on an as-needed basis - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - by an interdisciplinary team consisting of: physicians, nurses, home health aides, social workers, chaplain, bereavement counselors, specially trained volunteers, and other health care professionals as needed.