Is Hospice Care Right for Me?
We truly aim to be highly professional yet compassionately personal, and it is this desire that gives us direction, motivation and energy to serve with purpose, honor and dignity.
Palliative Care
This is also called chronic illness care and acts in conjunction with the medical care you’re already receiving. The main focus of this care is on pain and symptom management.
- For persons who are seriously or chronically ill
- Not dependent on prognosis
- Medicare Part B billing (E/M – Evaluation Management)
- It’s a consultative professional service
- Focuses on pain and symptom management and medication reconciliation
- Includes discussions about goals of care like setting management
Hospice Care
While hospice care also focuses on managing symptoms and pain, this type of care is for people in the terminal phase of their lives. As such, it includes an interdisciplinary team approach to tend to the holistic needs of the patient and family.
- 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
- Main focus is end-of-life care
Hospice Care Is Holistic Care
COMPASSIONATE CARE
PATIENTS & FAMILIES COME FIRST
SMART TECHNOLGY FOR EFFICIENT CARE
IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE
Compassionate Quality Care with the Latest Technology
Providing compassionate palliative and hospice care to ensure a calm and comfortable quality of life for our patients and their families is the heart of Blue Horizons. Understanding each day is precious, we manage health care so that our clients can have comfort, peace and dignity while living with a serious or terminal illness.
Patient Care Connect ™
Our specialized approach to connecting families & caregivers with credentialed compassion care & personalized comfort
Personal Care
Feeding, toileting, bathing, ambulation, Oral and personal hygiene, Dressing and grooming
Skilled Nursing
High-tech nursing, medication, injections, hospice, In-home blood draws and injections, Vital signs
Patient Comfort Program
As a Blue Horizons family, you are at the center of a circle of caring people. Your needs, preferences and wishes are part of our well-being program.
Helpful Links
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Professional organization for physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers specializing in hospice and palliative medicine.American Health Care Association
Non-profit organization of affiliated state health organizations.American Medical Directors Association
The professional association of medical directors, attending physicians and others involved in long-term care.Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
The nation’s largest and oldest professional nursing organization dedicated to promoting excellence in hospice and palliative nursing care.- The U.S. government’s medical plan for people 65 years of age and older.
National Association for the Support of Long Term Care
National organization representing legislative and regulatory interests in healthcare.- The official Web site of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
National Family Caregivers Association
Non-profit organization that empowers family caregivers to act on behalf of themselves and their loved ones.National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Charitable organization advocating for the needs of people facing life-limiting illness.National Alliance for Caregiving
Non-profit coalition of national organizations focusing on issues of family caregiving.National Alzheimer’s Association
Voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research.
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