Primary Care Physician
Supports the patient’s transition to comfort-focused care while ensuring continuity and coordination of medical services.
Hospice Medical Director
Oversees the medical care and approves the Plan of Care for patients receiving end-of-life services. Plays a vital leadership role, ensuring that all care aligns with the highest standards of hospice care while honoring goals and dignity of each patient.
Hospice Registered Nurse
Serves as the patient's Case Manager. Provides skilled, compassionate nursing care to terminally ill patients, focusing on comfort, dignity, and quality of life. Coordinates care, guides and teaches patients and their families through the end-of-life journey with respect and compassion.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Provides essential hands-on care and support to patients facing life-limiting illnesses under the supervision of a Hospice Registered Nurse. Helps maintain patient comfort, dignity, and quality of life in the final stages of care.
Social Worker
Provides emotional, social, and practical support to patients and families navigating the challenges of a terminal illness. Assists with end-of-life preparations such as funeral and mortuary arrangements.
Hospice Chaplain
Provides spiritual and emotional support to patients and families of all faiths, beliefs, and backgrounds. Helps ensure that each patient’s spiritual needs are honored as they approach the end of life.
Volunteers
Offer companionship, comfort, and practical assistance that enhance quality of life.
Grief Support
Helps families and loved ones cope with the emotional and psychological challenges of losing a loved one. Provides compassionate care to families before and after death, offering counseling resources, and a safe space for healing.
Dietitian
Ensures that patients receive the right nutrition to maintain comfort and quality of life during their end-of-life care.
Speech, Physical and Occupational Therapists
Focus on comfort, safety, and quality of life, delivering interventions that respect the goals and needs of each patient in the final phase of life.
Levels of Care
Routine Hospice Care
is the most common level of hospice care and refers to services provided to patients who are living at home, in a nursing facility, in an independent living facility, or in an assisted living facility, and whose symptoms are well managed and do not require continuous or inpatient care.
Continuous Home Care
is a short-term, intensive level of hospice care provided in the patient’s home during an acute medical crisis, when symptoms become too severe to manage with routine visits alone. Nursing care is provided for 8-24 hours a day, as needed, to manage acute symptoms at home rather than in a hospital or an inpatient facility, helping patients remain in familiar and comfortable environments during a critical time.
Short-term Inpatient Care
provides patients with specialized care in a hospital for a limited period and for the intensive management of symptoms or medical needs that cannot be adequately addressed in a home setting or a skilled nursing facility.
Inpatient Respite Care
provides short-term relief for family caregivers by admitting the hospice patient to a Medicare-certified facility, for up to 5 consecutive days.