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Healthcare Professionals:
Our professional education and healthcare relations staff work every day to break down myths about care for advanced illness, with individual and group education on a variety of end-of-life topics. We work with you one-on-one to help you determine if hospice is the right care option. We can also help you bring up the conversation of care options with your patients, or be available to meet with patients and families. Below are some of the most common myths we hear from our physician and long term care partners.
I will lose patients to Community Hospice if I refer them. We encourage you to continue following your patients in hospice care. When you continue as the attending physician, you receive reimbursement for office visits and review of care plans. You can maintain full control of your patients' care, hand over pain and symptom management to one of our medical directors, or defer total care to us. Community Hospice is for patients only in the last days of life. Our care is for anyone with an advanced-stage, life-limiting illness with a typical life expectancy of 12 months or less. Earlier referrals give your patients the full benefit of our care: greater comfort, time to overcome spiritual and emotional distress, find closure in relationships, and say good-bye. Research shows patients get the most out of their hospice benefits after 75 to 90 days under hospice care. Electing Community Hospice means giving up hope. Community Hospice's interdisciplinary care approach addresses a patient's physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual well-being. This total-care approach means patients can still hope for a better overall quality of life. If patients wish to pursue aggressive, curative treatments, they may revoke their hospice care and return at any time. Community Hospice inpatient care centers are for long term stay patients. As one of the many care venues we offer patients, Community Hospice acute-care inpatient care centers provide short-term care only for those with intractable pain and symptoms that cannot be managed elsewhere. After a short stay, our goal is to return patients to wherever they consider home, including long term care or assisted living facilities. You can't skill a resident while they are in Community Hospice care. Medicare reimburses facilities for providing skilled nursing care to residents for conditions unrelated to their hospice diagnosis at the same time they are receiving hospice support. Community Hospice patients must execute a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order. Our patients are not required to have a DNR to receive hospice care. While our psychosocial specialists can advise residents and families on the availability of DNRs and other advance directives, what they use is up to them. |
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Community Hospice of Northeast Florida wants you, your staff, your colleagues and the patients you serve to understand the benefits hospice care provides. Unfortunately, a number of myths persist in the healthcare community about end-of-life care. | ||||||
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Call 904.268.5200 for general information or 904.407.6500 for referral and admissions information. |