Services/Service Area
When is it time for hospice care?
It is time to consider hospice care when a patient's focus has shifted from curative measures to making the most of life and spending quality time with family. Hospice care is most beneficial the sooner it is begun. Many people are not referred early enough to take advantage of all that hospice has to offer. Families and patients receive the most benefit from hospice when hospice is in the home for three months or longer.
Where is hospice care received?
While hospice care is generally provided in the patient's home, we deliver hospice services wherever our patients call home - private residences, apartments, assisted-living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, etc. We service 17 counties across the midlands to include Orangeburg and surrounding counties as well as Colleton and surrounding counties.
How is hospice care paid for?
Hospice is paid for in the same ways as other medical services;
- Medicare Part A
- Medicare Advantage Plans
- Medicaid
- Private Insurance
What are some common hospice diagnoses?
Some common diagnoses that are included in hospice care in the end stages of the disease;
- ALS
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Cancer
- Cardiac and pulmonary diseases such as CHF/COPD
- Kidney disease such as failure
- Liver disease
- Neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease
- Stoke
- Patients experiencing multi-symptom decline and stopping aggressive treatment may also be eligible for hospice care.