Compassionate Hospice Care

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Our Mission

To ensure a comfortable end-of-life experience by providing high quality hospice care services to their families and loved ones with compassion, dignity, and respect.

Our Goal

To know our patients with a life-limiting illness as well as their families and loved ones in order to provide them the best-individualized hospice care plan that meets their needs, concerns, choices, decisions, fears, wishes, and beliefs.

Our Vision

To be the hospice care agency that provides the most compassionate care and humanly possible care that brings quality of life until the end of our patient's journey and the most comprehensive support to their families and loved ones during this crossroad experience.

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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF CARE OF YOUR LOVED ONE

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WE APPRECIATE THAT

We Honor Veterans

Gold Star Hospice is on a mission to serve those who have served their country. America’s Veterans often carry experiences that present unique challenges at the end-of-life. We Honor Veterans®, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and National Hospitalization Avoidance Program, is designed to empower hospice professionals to meet the special needs of dying veterans.

We are here for you 24 hours a day

  • Individualized Plan of Care Specific to the Patient’s Needs and the Wishes of the Patient and Family.
  • Exceptional medical care in the comfort of your home.
  • Comfort and Symptom Management
  • Emotional Support and Spiritual Counseling.
  • Extended Bereavement Care as needed.
  • Personal Care such as Aide visits, Podiatrist visits, Aromatherapy, Massage etc.,
  • Save on Expenses for medication, medical equipment & supplies.
  • Volunteers provided to help patients in need and their caregivers.
  • Funeral home arrangement and death certification support

Myths and Facts about Hospice

FACT: Caregivers at Gold Star Hospice recognize hope as a powerful, ever-changing force that continues throughout the time of living and the process of dying. Hospice offers hope for freedom from isolation, loneliness, loss of control and physical pain. Your family will be nurtured and supported with comprehensive grief counseling services during the end-of-life journey and after your loved one’s death.

FACT: Hospice care is available for all individuals with an advanced life-limiting illness. It is not limited to any specific diagnosis.

FACT: Gold Star Hospice provides hospice care services in the patient’s home or wherever the patient resides, including residential, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. We adapt to you instead of making you adapt to us.

FACT: Most insurance companies, including Medicare and Medi-Cal, cover the entire cost of hospice care. This includes medications, medical supplies and durable medical equipment such as a hospital bed, oxygen, wheelchair and other items associated with the hospice diagnosis. Most often there is no cost to the patient.

FACT: The goal of hospice is neither to prolong life nor hasten death, but to make the quality of life the best it can be in the patient’s final months, weeks and days. There are no studies that indicate that hospice can hasten death but there are studies showing that some patients live longer when receiving hospice services.

FACT: All hospice providers are not the same. Gold Star Hospice is unique in several ways. We provide care to everyone in the community; no one in need has ever been turned away for financial reasons. Our hospice caregivers are trained to care for veterans, addressing post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, survivor’s guilt, and soul injury. Additionally, we offer veteran pinning ceremonies to honor and thank veterans for their military service. Our comprehensive grief support services which include individual counseling and support groups are open to all community members, regardless of patient affiliation or how their person died. And we pride ourselves on quality compassionate care.

FACT: Hospice care is focused on making the patient as comfortable as possible. This means that some patients may choose to stop medications that have heavy side effects. People receiving hospice care are no longer receiving curative treatment. These decisions are made by the patient and their loved ones in consultation with the medical team.

FACT: Hospice care can begin when the patient’s physician gives a prognosis of six months or less if the disease follows the expected course. Hospice often provides a level of comfort and support that results in many people outliving their expected prognosis.

FACT: The hospice team starts by asking patients and families about their goals of care. The care plan is then customized to the patient. No two patients are alike; neither are their care plans.

FACT: The process for signing up for hospice is not complicated. Our hospice team in Sunnyvale, CA is available to answer your questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 650-814-0056 to contact our hospice team.