COLLABORATING  FOR A  SEAMLESS TRANSITION

 

Follow These Simple Steps to Initialize Hospice Care:

  1. Introduce the hospice conversation with your physician (Or the other way around). If the patient/ family wants more information, the physician would refer them to Caring Like Family Hospice.
  2. Family/Patient contacts Caring Like Family for a comprehensive overview of hospice care.
  3. The patient/ family decides whether to proceed with hospice care.
  4. If the patient/ family decides to enter hospice care, they would instruct their physician to send a hospice order to Caring Like Family Hospice
  5. The physician  sends an order to Caring Like Family Hospice which should say: “Referral  for hospice evaluation and care with Caring Like Family Hospice, Dx: (indicate the terminal diagnosis/es)”
  6. The hospice nurse (Registered Nurse). contacts the patient/family to schedule a visit to assess the patient.
  7. The hospice nurse visits the patient for a hospice assessment/start of care visit.
  8. The hospice nurse will have the responsible party (family or alert patient) sign admission/consent forms. Please note that the hospice Social Worker/Hospice admin team can also email the consent forms and obtain signatures prior to the nurse’s visit.
  9. The hospice nurse shares her assessment with the Referring Physician and the hospice Medical Director. The two physicians( in some cases just the Medical Director)  certify the patient for hospice services.
  10. The patient/ family is to decide whether they want the patient’s primary physician/specialist to stay on the case as an attending physician, by “electing” that physician on the “Election of Medicare Hospice form).
  11. Hospice is initiated as soon as all the consents are signed, and the verbal/written certification is received by hospice from the referring physician.
  12. Other team members for instance the Social Worker and the Spiritual Counselor will schedule their assessment visits directly with the patient/family.

 

FREQUENCY OF VISITS

Hospice nurses and other hospice services providers should visit patients routinely according to the ordered frequency per the plan of hospice care. The frequency is based on the patient’s clinical/spiritual/psychosocial needs.

CARING LIKE FAMILY HOSPICE CONTACT  INFORMATION

Business Address: 4223 Glencoe Avenue, Suite # B-109                                                                                                                  Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

Telephone:  310-574-5950 (24/7)

Fax: 310-395-8718

Email: Hospice@Caringlikefamily.com