Our Services
Services will be provided based on need for care and per individualized plan of care. Hospice patients have the right to receive the appropriate level of care throughout hospice stay.
How We Can Help
Your ANX Hospice Care Team includes the hospice medical director, skilled nurses, social worker, hospice aides, and spiritual counselor – all under your physician’s supervision. The care team meets regularly to ensure collaborative and individualized care plans to best serve you.
What Services are Included?
- On-call availability to meet the needs of both patients and their families
- Pain management, comfort care, and symptom control
- Skilled nursing care with medication administration and management
- Coordination of all in-home medical equipment and medical supplies
- Guidance on advanced care directives and funeral planning
- Emotional, social, and spiritual support
- Caregiver training and assistance with activities of daily living
- Individualized bereavement support and grief counseling
- Music therapy or companionship from volunteers
- Guidance on nutrition, hydration, and feeding
- Allied therapies for comfort goals:
- Physical Therapy
- Registered Dietician
- Occupational Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Speech Therapy
Routine Home Care
The most typical level of hospice care ad takes place where the patient lives: home, or the home of another person, Residential Care facility for the Elderly (RCFE), Assisted Living or Board and Care, Nursing home or Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Continuous Home Care
Provides short term direct care in monitoring and supporting patient at home during a period of crisis. The primary nursing goal is to achieve palliation or management of acute medical symptoms, keeping patients in their homes (except in hospitals or hospice inpatient facility).
General Inpatient Care (GIP)
Short term care of a patient in an inpatient setting for the management of an acute medical crisis that cannot be managed in any other setting. Patient must require skilled nursing for palliation or management of acute medical symptom.
Inpatient Respite Care
Short term for patient in a nursing facility to relieve caregivers allowing them to rest from care-giving tasks. It is provided for up to five (5) days t at time and may not exceed 5 days. The hospice team will continue to visit per plan of care.