Healthcare Professionals:
The Admissions Process

Community Hospice referrals can come from anyone, no matter their relationship to the patient. In addition to physicians, family members, friends or prospective patients themselves may contact us to schedule a convenient visit with one of our clinical staff.

Along with the presence of advanced-stage, disease-specific criteria, other factors help us determine if a patient is appropriate for hospice care:

• The patient and family must desire palliative care, which focuses on comfort and pain management rather than cure.
• The patient must be certified by a physician as having an advanced-stage illness with a life expectancy of 12 months or less.
• The patient must live in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau or St. Johns county.

Once the attending physician approves hospice care, we contact the patient or family to set up an appointment. Our admissions nurse then meets with the patient and reviews his or her chart, if available. The nurse also may perform a brief physical exam.

If the patient is appropriate, the nurse presents the required consent forms to be signed and, if necessary, initiates transfer of the patient to the most appropriate setting for hospice care. Our patients may live at home, in a long term care or assisted living facility, or receive care at a hospital.

Call 904.407.6500 or toll free 866.253.6681 for more information on Community Hospice referrals and admissions. Calls are answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Call 904.268.5200 for general information or 904.407.6500 for referral and admissions information.
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