hospice in the snf
Hospice
services can be provided to patients that are residing in a skilled nursing
facility, provided that the patient meets the eligibility
requirements. In collaboration with the services provided by the SNF,
hospice services are an added benefit that are specifically tailored for
the needs of the terminally ill patient.
The patient's...eligibility for hospice services is unrelated to:
You may refer a patient simply by calling the Hospice office toll free at: 1-877-281-4000
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Why pursue Hospice care & practice in a long-term care facility?
- Residents in long-term care facilities are entitled
access to hospice care.
- Patients can be offered increased & expanded
services when hospice & long-term care facilities
work together.
- Long-term care facility staff can be exposed,
trained, & become active participants in the
provision of hospice care.
- Possibility for increased public relations for long-
term care facility & hospice.
- Offers patients, families, & health care providers
another option for continuity of care from the
hospital and/or home.
- Hospitals have improved access to long-term
care placement for terminally ill patients in a
specialty setting who otherwise would have died
in the hospital awaiting long-term care placement.
- The patient/family have access to greater support
as they contemplate & make many difficult treatment
& end-of-life decisions.
- Hospice is a leader in helping health care providers
meet the needs of terminally ill patients & families.
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the potential hospice patient:
- has a terminal illness (neoplastic or non-neoplastic)
& is no longer receiving curative treatment, but
requires palliative treatment
- has a life expectancy of approximately six months
or less
- chooses hospice care, understanding the hospice
philosophy
- has a family member or other appropriate person
willing to share responsibility for care & decision
making
- lives in the hospice service area
- has any kind of insurance, or no insurance at all
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hospice levels of care
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Routine |
Hospice provides full spectrum of hospice intermittent services, medications, DME & supplies related to terminal illness.
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Respite |
Respite care is short term inpatient care (at the same level as Inpatient Care) provided to a home patient when necessary to relieve the family members or other persons caring for the individual & to provide them a rest period.
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Continuous |
During periods of acute medical crisis for patients residing at home a change in status to "continuous care" may be necessary. The patient must require primarily nursing care for palliation or management of acute medical symptoms to be eligible to receive continuous care. Continuous home care is covered when it is provided to maintain an individual at home during a medical crisis.
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General In-Patient |
Patient may be moved from home or discharged from an acute hospital to a contracted facility to receive "inpatient care" or a Care Center patient on "routine care" may be changed to "inpatient care status". Inpatient care is provided when a patient requires increased skilled nursing care to manage acute medical crises. Hospice regulations require that the patient be at the facility's highest level of care with a Registered Nurse available 24 hours/day. The facility also agrees to admit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week & to provide daily documentation by licensed nurse of the patient's condition (much like the charting required for patients on Part A Medicare).
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