Hospice Patient Services
• Pain Management
• 24 Hour On Call Nursing
• Home Health Aides Visits for personal care
• Bereavement Counseling
• Medications and Equipment
Here at B & D Hospice Services, we provide emotional, medical and spiritual support through an interdisciplinary team made up of physicians, nurses, social workers, grief counselors, home health aides and volunteers. The goal is to improve quality of life for you and your family by focusing on symptom and pain management and comfort care rather than on curing the disease.
Hospice focuses on the hope that every day will be the best it can be rather than that the disease will be cured. The goal of hospice is to ease the suffering of chronically and terminally ill people and their families and friends. Frequently patients with advanced disease are discharged from hospice because their condition improves.
Hospice care is provided wherever the patient is residing - home, healthcare facility or our residence. Hospice is not a place, it is a comprehensive, compassionate approach to care. Hospice services generally require the physician, patient and family to acknowledge that the disease is terminal. The understanding is that the care provided is comfort care as opposed to healing treatment and that this treatment will be relinquished once hospice care begins, must also be acknowledged.
B & D Hospice Services also offer hospice benefits for Veterans. Home hospice care can be granted to a Veteran who has either enrolled in the program, or was not required to do so and has been determined eligible for Veteran's Administration (VA benefits). If the Veteran has been diagnosed with an incurable disease in which he or she is tn the last phase of hospice, services may be granted.
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Admission Process
Admitting a patient to the hospice program is a simple process for the attending physician, discharge planner or social worker. Just call the hospice and a nurse will visit the patient and family at home or in the hospital, where information about the program will be presented. If the patient elects the program, the hospice team makes all necessary arrangements for admission.
For more Information on Hospice care and our services, please call us at: (818) 230-7688
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Eligibility for Hospice Care
Residents who have a primary caregiver available, normally a family member, relative, or friend, to give or supervise care are eligible for hospice. Patients need to have a doctor's certification that their life expectancy is six months or less, should the disease continue its expected course. Patients need to no longer be receiving curative treatment and agree to receive only care geared toward comfort and pain relief.
Upon meeting the following criteria eligibility requirements will be determined for a patient.
• Based on the clinical judgment of the patient's Primary Physician and the Hospice Medical Director, it has been certified that the patient has a limited life expectancy.
• The patient's Primary Physician authorizes Hospice care.
• The focus Is now on physical, emotional and spiritual comfort rather than curative measures.
Please get in touch with our team to check Eligibility here.