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What Is Hospice & Palliative Care?
Hospice and palliative care is designed to help reduce both the physical pain and emotional suffering of patients during their final stages of illness. Contrary to what many people think, hospice is not a physical place. It is a service that comes to wherever people live, whether that’s a hospital, an assisted living facility or a home.
At the heart of hospice is the belief that every person has the right to die pain free and with dignity—and that families deserve care and support as well. Because everyone’s situation is different, Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care helps create a personalized care plan, tailored to a loved one’s specific needs.
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What is hospice care?
Voice of Mark Leenay, Evercare Chief Medical Officer:
Hospice care is a philosophy of care around providing services to maximize the comfort and function of an individual and their family.
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Hospice is covered 100% by
Medicare
Medicaid
Most private insurance
Voice of Tricia Ford, Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care Vice President of Operations:
Hospice is a Medicare benefit that is for someone who has less than six months to live. Hospice is about giving additional care, its, its supplementing the health system. It’s, it’s a benefit for individuals facing end-of-life, because there are more challenges at that time.
Voice of Ed Tropp, Evercare Hospice Chaplain:
I think the most important thing that hospice does for an individual patient and their family is the fact that we give them dignity of life. We give them the best quality of life they have left.
Voice of Tricia Ford, Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care Vice President of Operations:
Many people think that’s it’s a, a place to go. There’s a hospice house somewhere that they can go to, and really, it’s a service that comes to where the patient lives. So it’s all about giving. It’s about trying to meet the patient and family where they’re at in their stage of illness and where do they want to go? Where do they want to go with it? And so we’re a resource along the way on their journey.
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Care that comes to you.
Where to Find Us
We offer hospice services in several states. Enter your ZIP code to see if Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care is available in your area.
We′re Here to Help
Call 1-877-273-5534 TTY: 71124 hours a day, 7 days a week
Speak with an Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care representative to discuss your needs, or let us contact you.
How You Can Help
Learn how to become a volunteer member of our hospice and palliative care team.
Evercare (TM) Hospice and Palliative Care is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, sex, religion, color, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or other protected factor. Evercare TM Hospice and Palliative Care is offered by Evercare Hospice, Inc.
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