Faith & Family Hospice does not define hospice as “end-of-life” care. We call it “care for the life you have“. We value our time serving your loved ones, and our mission is to make sure that our hospice provides everything necessary to ensure the best quality of life possible for patients and their families.
Hospice care, whether at home or in a facility, focuses on managing symptoms and pain for people in the terminal phase of their lives. It uses a holistic interdisciplinary team approach to tend to the needs of the patient and family.
Hospice care refers to the following:
Dependent on a prognosis of six months or less to live
Medicare benefit, Type A billing
Includes an interdisciplinary approach
For the family and patient
Includes bereavement and spiritual counseling for patients and family members (up to 13 months after patient’s death)
Hospice care has elements of palliative care but the two are distinct and different forms of care.
Also called chronic illness care, palliative care represents a complement to the medical care a patient normally receives. The main focus of palliative care is pain and symptom management. Palliative care refers to:
The word Hospice derives from the Latin word hospitum, or “host”, “hospitality” and “bonds of hospitality”. The Old French word “ospice” in the 1200s translated into “shelter and hospitality,”
By 1818 hospice was used as a term for “rest house for travelers,” especially the houses of refuge and shelter kept by monks in the passes of the Alps, and in 1879 the use of the word hospice as “home for the aged and terminally ill” is found in contemporary literature.
whether hospice or palliative care is the right care choice for you or your loved one – or whether you are eligible to receive hospice care - please take a moment to consider the following 10 questions: