Someone should consider hospice after a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness and when hospital admissions, tests and treatments are detracting from the patient’s quality of life. A patient does not have to be bed-bound or critically ill to receive hospice services.
Hospice care requires the diagnosis of a terminal illness and a physician certification that the patient’s condition is appropriate for hospice.
There is no limit to the amount of time a patient may remain on hospice. Medicare will continue to cover hospice services as long as the patient remains eligible for hospice. Medicare requires a physician face-to-face re-certification of hospice eligibility on the patient’s 180th day of hospice and every 60 days thereafter.
Maintaining the patient and physician relationship throughout the hospice care is of utmost importance. Residential Hospice reinforces this relationship by coordinating care with the patient’s physician.
Patients and families who choose hospice are not giving up hope; they are in fact redefining it. Though there may no longer be a possibility of curing their illnesses, Residential Hospice can help patients live every day with love, comfort and peace.
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