Hospice Services

What is Hospice?

Hospice is a special type of care provided to elderly loved ones who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness or prognosis. It focuses on the person, not the disease, and their quality of life. It puts the patient and their family in the middle of a team of professionals who help with physical pain and emotional and spiritual needs. Hospice care is patient-centered because the hospice team does what they need to do to meet the patient’s and their family’s needs.

HealthFlex Hospice Services is about making your loved one as comfortable as possible and celebrating the time they have left with their family.

How HealthFlex Hospice Stands Apart

Caring for a loved one at the end of their life who is terminally ill, has dementia, or is suffering from other health issues can be emotionally exhausting and overwhelming.

For a bit of help or a lot, we can provide a respite from the daily routine with trusted, professional resources. We can also ease your burden with advice or a shoulder to cry on. In addition, HealthFlex offers skilled nursing home care for patients who need specialized nursing or rehab services, Palliative Care for patients with severe illness, Transitional Care to reduce the risk of rehospitalization, and grief counseling.

Who Can Benefit the Most from Hospice?

People who need hospice care have severe illnesses or are at the end stages of their life. Most of the time, they have life-threatening diseases that make daily life physically, emotionally, or spiritually very hard. Others have difficult symptoms like nausea, tiredness, and trouble breathing. These symptoms could be caused by the disease or the treatments meant to cure it.

Hospice cares for people with pain, discomfort, and distress. Hospice care can be helpful for people with cancer, heart disease, COPD (emphysema), advanced dementia, and most of all, those at the end stages of their life. Hospice is best for people focused on having the best quality of life possible.

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Meet Your Care Team and Hospice Services

Our team is knowledgeable in every aspect of Hospice Care:

Physicians – Board-certified physicians have ongoing discussions with your Hospice Nurse and our team to administer care
Skilled Nursing – Our clinicians are specially trained to provide Hospice Care on a regularly scheduled basis, recognize symptoms, cope with pain and manage medications
Hospice Aides – Assist with personal care such as bathing, grooming, and dressing
Social Workers – Provide help with the emotional impact of illness, offer education and discuss counseling
Registered Nutritionists – Recommend healthy foods and supplements
Volunteers – Help provide respite care when caregivers need a break, and can even provide journaling and music therapy

Durable Medical Equipment Services

Equipment and Supplies – Order hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, oxygen systems, incontinence supplies, and more

Your Family Support Services

You’re never alone, as we surround you with people who can help:

Patient and Family Support Volunteers – Offer companionship for both the patient and the caregiver, as well as run errands
Spiritual Support Counselor Volunteers – Talk to your family and loved one to cultivate a sense of peace and well-being
Grief Counseling – Provide support for individuals or families to comfort your loss

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Comforting End of Life

Our HealthFlex Hospice Care team helps you or a loved one get the most out of life at the end by offering a range of compassionate end-of-life services.

Supporting Our Patients

Our physicians, registered nurses, and social workers oversee and relieve a patient’s pain, manage medications, supervise nutrition, and discuss symptoms often caused by life-limiting illnesses or just the end stages of life.

Supporting Your Families

In addition, we help comfort each hospice patient’s family and caregivers and provide spiritual support during a most stressful time.

Read our satisfied patient stories

The best in-home care experience. Everyone was extremely nice and helpful. I will recommend this agency to my friends and family.

I.K.

This is the first that I had your services. I have many others before, but yours are the best. The nurse took her time to help me and listen. By the time, she left I was feeling great.

R.F.

I am extremely grateful for the care provided by your nurse and physical therapist. Both are caring, capable and devoted professionals. More important, they are good people. Because of these two, your company is highly recommended.

I.J.

Special thanks for the excellent care I received from your physical therapist and nurse. I have been in other home health care systems and this is (by) far the best I had. Please let them know how well they are doing.

T.R.

My nurse, case manager and my physical therapist were extraordinary. They were compassionate and good listeners. They should be commended for their care they provided to me and my family. The social worker was outstanding and thank you so much.

R.F.

It is a great agency. Very professional and knowledgeable people. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Anonymous

The nurse and physical therapist I was assigned have been excellent with their communication, care, and compassion. I truly appreciate their attention to detail and their going above and beyond to meet my needs.

R.F.

Care providers were professional, courteous, articulate, caring, on time. It was a pleasant experience.

E.L.

They talk to me and listen. That is always great. Thank you.

C.T.

Your team was wonderful and really helped me recover quickly. Everyone was wonderful, caring, and concerned.

P.D.

I am satisfied with the nurses that are helping me. They are very respectful and professional. My providers helped me walk again. they gave me exercises I needed for my health.

C.A.

When is the Best Time to Start Hospice?

Many who use hospice care regret not doing so sooner, as it can improve a patient’s life and length of living. Families with loved ones receiving hospice for a brief period before passing have more difficulty coping than those who had it for longer.

Cancer

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

Chronic Disease Management

Dementia

Kidney Failure

Liver Failure

Lung Disease

Ask your doctor if you should consider hospice if your family and the person you care for could benefit from pain or symptom management. HealthFlex helps with bathing and grooming, emotional and spiritual support, and being able to call and get caregiving advice. HealthFlex recommends care should last at least two to three months, or as long as possible. Ask as soon as possible so that you do not miss out on the assistance that hospice can provide.

What Hospice Costs

Who pays for hospice care is a question that comes up quite often. Most patients and family members who help them will immediately ask about their financial options. This is normal since many people worry about how they will pay for hospice care. However, this worry is usually quickly resolved; when it comes to how to pay for hospice care, patients have a few options.

Hospice services, medical equipment, supplies, and medications are benefits covered by Medicare, Medi-Cal, senior and regular HMOs, and private insurance plans. HealthFlex works with almost all major health insurance groups, so please call us today to learn more about how we can help.