Beth Hoffmann answers your hospice questions
Q: When I make the choice to start hospice service, does my insurance company direct which hospice I use?
A: No. Patients have the right to choose their hospice provider. Physicians or other caregivers may recommend a hospice, but patient choice must be honored. When looking for a hospice provider, it's important to know all your options.
Hoffmann Hospice Core Services
Hoffmann uses aggressive treatment for pain and symptom management while keeping the patient as alert as possible. Hospice care neither prolongs nor hastens death, but provides specialized support during the transition from this life to the next.
Our patients are assigned their own personal care teams and offered the following services:
Core Services
Pain and symptom control
Care for patients and their families
Care for adults, children and infants
Social services
Spiritual care
Home health aides
Trained volunteers
Bereavement services
Medical equipment and medication
Twenty-four hour access to on-call hospice nurses
Hoffmann also offers a number of unique supplemental services
Hoffmann's weekly grief support group meetings are free of charge and open to the public.
Patients of for-profit hospices receive significantly fewer non-core services - medical equipment and supplies, medications, personal care and respite care - than patients of non-profit hospices.
Source: California Healthcare Foundation
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