Answers to Your Questions
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Eligibility
Eligibility
Patients are eligible for hospice care when they have an advanced illness and life expectancy of 12 months or less, as determined by a physician. They also must desire hospice care, which stresses comfort and pain management over disease-modifying therapies.
If you are unsure about life expectancy, our physicians are available for consults anytime. For patients and loved ones, we offer no-obligation information visits to help them understand their choices.
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Illnesses
Illnesses
There’s a myth that hospice care is only for people with cancer. The fact is Community Hospice & Palliative Care serves patients with a variety of advanced, end-stage conditions. These include, but are not limited to, cancer, cardiopulmonary disease, end-stage renal failure, end-stage liver disease, neurological conditions, end-stage HIV and malnutrition.
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Admissions
Admissions
After you approve Community Hospice & Palliative Care and the patient and family consent to our services, we work with all parties to customize the plan of care. We ask you how — and how often — you want updates. And we give you choices about your role in ongoing care — by maintaining total care, allowing us to manage pain and symptoms, or consenting for us to manage total care. To us, your decision is never final.
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Education
Education
A representative from our Health Care Relations team can come to your office or facility with information for you or your patients. He or she also can work with your team to set up an in-service for larger groups. We offer more than 75 topics related to advanced illness, communication skills, admission criteria, ethics, spirituality and many more, with some programs as brief as 20 minutes. Call 904.407.5113 to get started.
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Not ready for hospice?
Not ready for hospice?
Along with traditional hospice care, we offer Community Palliative Care, a hospital-based consultative service at several area facilities. Palliative care offers some of the benefits of hospice care, but it’s available at any stage of any life-limiting illness, and patients can receive it while pursuing disease-modifying therapies with a curative intent. We also provide advance care planning services at no cost through our Honoring Choices® Florida community collaborative.
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Long-Term Care
Long-Term Care
We partner with nursing homes and assisted living communities to provide compassionate care to residents. There we offer an added layer of support, including care planning assistance, help with Medicaid applications and pre-screening, in-services for staff, memorial services, emotional support for family members and specialized programs such as wound care, crisis intervention care and pet therapy. We’re there when you need us, including nights, weekends and holidays.