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What is Hospice?
What is Hospice?
What is Hospice?
HOSPICE is a special concept of care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure oriented treatments.
• Hospice care neither prolongs life nor hastens death.
• Hospice is not a place but a concept of care. Hospice care is provided in the patient's home, assisted living or nursing homes.
• Hospice addresses all symptoms of a disease, with a special emphasis on controlling a patient's pain and discomfort.
Diagnoses commonly associated with Hospice care include these and other terminal diseases:
•:• Heart Disease
♦:♦ Alzheimer's/Dementia
♦:♦ Respiratory Diseases
•:• Liver/Renal Failure
•:• Cancer
♦:♦ AIDS/HIV
♦:♦ Neurologic Diseases
•:• Stroke or Coma
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What is Hospice?
What is Hospice?
AT UTOPIA HOSPICE we take pride in serving our patients and their loved ones with availability 24 hours and 365 days a year.
Our interdisciplinary, medically directed team is what makes Utopia Hospice outstanding.
Hospice Nurse: Makes regular scheduled
visits to the patient providing education, pain management and symptom control, following physician orders. Available 24 hours a day.
Hospice Medical Director: oversees medical care.
Home Health Aides: Provides assistance
with personal care, grooming and ADLs
Social Worker: Evaluates the need for
assistance, whether emotional, financial or
practical . They assess the need for volunteers
and other support services that may be
needed by the patient, family or caregiver.
Chaplain: Provides spiritual support to
patient/caregiver, also serving as a liaison
between them and their religious community.
Our chaplain often assist in the arrangements of memorial and funeral services as well.
Also Includes:
*Continuous Care during crisis
periods/ Respite/Inpatient Care
*Physical, Speech/Occupational therapy
*Bereavement services for a year after death
*Trained Volunteers
*Equipment, Medications & supplies related to the terminal diagnosis.
What is covered under Hospice?
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SELECT THE HOSPICE OF YOUR CHOICE.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SELECT THE HOSPICE OF YOUR CHOICE.
IF a person has a terminal illness or
disease that is no longer responding to
aggressive care, they are eligible for
hospice care if two physicians can
certify to their condition and
prognosis. One of these may be the
hospice physician.
The physicians will certify that if the disease were to run its normal course, the patient may be expected to die within six months.
This does not mean that the person
will definitely die within six months.
The course of decline in a patient with
a serious illness varies from disease to
disease, and even from person to person within the same disease. It simply means if the illness continues as it usually does, the patient may be expected to die.
Admission/ Financial
Utopia Hospice accepts Medicare,
Medicaid, most insurances and private
pay. Utopia Hospice may provide care
to those who qualify for hospice
services regardless of the ability to pay
or insurance coverage.
*Utopia Hospice complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, and protected veteran status.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SELECT THE HOSPICE OF YOUR CHOICE.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SELECT THE HOSPICE OF YOUR CHOICE.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SELECT THE HOSPICE OF YOUR CHOICE.
Here at UTOPIA HOSPICE we
VALUE THE PATIENT'S RIGHTS, HONOR THEIR WISHES AND RESPECT THEIR CHOICES!
Your physician, provider office, social worker or hospital discharge planner should do the same..... without bias nor judgment.
We encourage all patients/family members/caregivers to interview and decide which agency BEST fits them.
Our mission here at Utopia Hospice is to educate the community regarding the hospice benefit and we do it proudly .
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Utopia Hospice
7125 Marvin D Love Fwy, Ste 325, Dallas. Texas, 75237