Caring is Our Specialty
Hospice is compassionate care focused on comfort
Hospice Care becomes necessary when a life-limiting condition no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments. Hospice care neither extends life nor promotes death. Hospice helps individuals focus their limited time on themselves, their partners, and their loved ones while optimizing quality of life
As a family-centered concept of care, Hospice utilizes a holistic approach to care meeting the unique needs of each individual and their family by focusing care on four basic needs of an individual
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- Physical
- Social
- Emotional
- Spiritual
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Sacred Heart Specializes in Pain and Symptom Management, and professionals trained to provide pain control measures and treatments. If administering pain and symptom management therapy requires a new skill, family members and count on our Sacred Heart staff for training and guidance.
Who pays for Hospice services?
Hospice services are covered under Medicare Part-A, Medi-Cal, most private insurance plans and HMOs. Other expenses not covered by the above payors will be discussed with the patient/family in advance
Who are eligible for Hospice?
Individuals who have a life-limiting illness that chooses to discontinue curative treatments and are certified by an individual's primary physician and our hospice physician are eligible for hospice. Individuals are accepted on the basis of health care need and their meeting the admission criteria