We're Here For You!

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Hospice is a philosophy and a concept, not a specific place of care. Hospice is for any person who has a terminal illness, or when curative treatment is no longer effective.

• Hospice focuses on enhancing quality of life for the patient and their loved ones.
• Hospice offers palliative and comfort care to patients by using the most current methods of pain and symptom management.
• Hospice is provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• This care involves a team of professionals and volunteers who address the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of the patient and their family.

Hospice care is available through Medicare, most private insurance plans, and private payment.

Anyone can refer a patient to a hospice program. To be admitted, a patient must:

• Agree to treatment aimed at comfort rather than cure.
• Have an incurable illness resulting in a limited life expectancy, as certified by a physician.

Hospice provides care to all patients with any end-stage diagnosis. These may include, but are not limited to:

• Metastatic Malignancies
• Heart Disease
• Kidney Disease
• Liver Disease
• Lung Disease
• Stroke and/or Coma
• AIDS
• Neurological Disease (Alzheimer's, Dementia, etc.)
• Lou Gehrig's Disease
• ALS
• Failure of the multiple organ systems
• Failure to thrive
• Senescence (The physical and mental conditions associated with advancing age.)

Communicare Hospice, provides all of the necessary medial and support services to manage the patient's life-limiting illness such as including:

• Caregiver education
• Pain and symptom management
• Nursing care
• Social and emotional support
• Spiritual support
• Respite care
• Grief support
• Physical/speech and occupational therapy
• Dietary counseling
• Medication, equipment and supplies necessary for management of terminal illness.

We serve in the counties of:

• Los Angeles
• Ventura
• Orange
• San Bernardino
• Riverside