Guardian Hospice

Guardian Hospice is a leading provider of comprehensive home health services to private individuals, case managers, physicians, nursing homes, hospitals, insurance companies and health maintenance organizations.

Criteria for Hospice Inpatient Care and Continuous Care

Eligibility for Inpatient or Continuous Care include symptoms that require acute medical management. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Uncontrolled pain
• Intractable nausea and vomiting
• Respiratory distress
• Abrupt changes in psychosocial problems and uncontrolled symptoms which can create significant stress on the patient/family
• Abrupt change in behavioral or cognitive abnormalities causing severe agitation, disorientation, orcombative behavior
• Intractable Seizures requiring intensive intervention, continuous monitoring, and medications
• Hemorrhage causing symptoms which are difficult for the family to manage
• Other symptoms defined by the interdisciplinary team unmanageable by the family

Levels of Care

• Routine Home Care
• Respite Care
• Inpatient Care
• Continuous Care

Hospice services are a Medicare Part A Benefit

• This means you are ENTITLED to hospice care, and Medicare covers our care, if you have Medicare Part A
• The Medicare Hospice Benefit offers 4 levels of care to patients who qualify, including inpatient and continuous care
• Medicaid and most insurance plans also cover hospice services

Guardian Hospice’s “Circle of Care”

• A multidisciplinary team which specializes in end of life care
• You, the patient and family, lead the team, which consists of…
• Team members who are experts in pain and symptom management

Benefits of Guardian Hospice

• Our Patients will always come first
• A Medical Director who quite literally wrote the book “The Field Guide for Hospice Nurses”, ensuring Clinical Excellence
• Our Hospice Patients are admitted within 3 hrs of a Physician Order, 24/7
• Our Patients will be contacted by one of our care providers within 10 minutes
• A dedicated Clinical Compliance Team ensuring Clinical Excellence
• 24 hour, 7 days a week availability, nurse on call
• Multidisciplinary team
• Pain evaluated on every visit and call
• Pain and symptom expertise
• End of life planning
• Meds, DME & supplies R/T the terminal dx are covered
• Education regarding end of life care

What this mens to you:

• The admission process can occur whenever you desire
• The assistance you need night or day is a phone call away
• Specialists in end of life care are available to you
• Proactive measures are taken to prevent and alleviate pain
• Comfort measures are taken to enhance quality of life
• You will be informed of any changes and offered support
• You will have assistance to ensure that affairs are in order
• Your out of pocket expenses will be decreased
• You will know more about signs and symptoms of decline