Hospice care

Hospice provides care where you live, whether it be a house, an apartment, assisted living, a nursing facility, or another place. 

• Hospice is also about providing supportive services to patients and caregivers. Focusing on comfort, quality of life, and seeking to meet patients’ medical, spiritual, social, and emotional needs.
• Hospice care does not cure an illness or disease but strives to honor a patient’s wishes and personal dignity.
• Hospice provides palliative care, which is the management of symptoms. Through the desire to reduce suffering, pain, enhance the quality of life by caring for emotional needs and comfort.

For many people, quality of life possessing the opportunity to be at home during the last stage of life. With this focus on the quality of life and comfort care, Hospice makes it more likely that patients can remain in their homes at the end of their lives.

Hospice is much more than just end of life care. It is the comprehensive care for the mind, body, and spiritual needs of the individual and the circle of friends and family who care for the patient. 

You might be eligible to receive care from Devoted if you have been diagnosed with a life-shortening illness and have decided to focus on symptom management rather than curative treatment. 

Common Diagnosis associated with Hospice Care are:

• Alzheimer’s disease
• Cardiovascular disease
• Liver/Renal disease
• Cancer
• Neurological disease
• Respiratory disease
• Stroke or Coma
• Other life-limiting illnesses

You may be eligible for Hospice Services if you are experiencing one or more of the following issues:

• Frequent hospitalizations
• Deteriorating mental abilities
• Recurrent infections
• Decreased ability to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
• Other specific declines in condition

Hospice Care can be provided wherever the patient considers home:

• House or apartment
• A friend’s or relative’s home
• Assisted living facility
• Nursing home
• Retirement community

Medicare

• Covers extensive collection of interdisciplinary services plus all medications, medical supplies, and medical equipment related to the hospice diagnosis
• Includes routine home care, general inpatient care, respite care, and continuous care
• If Medicare is being billed for hospice care, patients can still bill Medicare Part A for any unrelated and pre-existing issues

Medicare Advantage Plans

• All advantage plans will revert back to traditional Medicare when choosing Hospice Care.
• Medicare Advantage plans will cover all the services and supplies mentioned above. 

No one is denied service because of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or diagnosis.