Patient Care
A Holistic Approach to Care
Gold Star Hospice Care patient care and services are guided by Individual Plans of Care that are developed for our patients and their loved ones by our interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, aides and volunteers.
Care for
someone else
The Patient will have:
- Compassion and dignity with an individualized comfort care plan
- Clinical excellence for pain and symptom management where you live
- Decreased stress levels to positively affect quality of life
- Comprehensive care that incorporates mind, body, and spirit
- No need for unnecessary re-admissions to ER visits/hospital visits
- Help with focusing on and developing personal goals before death
- Preparation and coordination of advance directives
- Families and caregivers are included in the patients plan of care for maximum support.
For the Patient and Family:
- Better control of the situation during the patient’s illness
- Emotional and spiritual support for grief and counseling
- Have closure with everyone together
- Become knowledgeable and comfortable with the disease and dying process
- Achieve peace with pending death
- Expert assistance and time to prepare for personal and financial matters
- Save on expenses for medication, equipment, and supplies related to the terminal condition
For the Family:
- Able to observe their loved one in a more comfortable state during a difficult time
- Opportunity to improve the quality of life of their loved one for the time that remains
- Learn to assist in caring for their loved one
- Develop relationship with a bereavement counselor earlier during a difficult time
Eligibility Level
Level 1 Routine Care
Level 2Continuous Care
Level 3 General Inpatient
Level 4 Inpatient Respite
( at skilled facility or hospice certified facilities) to help relief the care giver fatigue and stress
Fees
Covered by insurance and Medications related to hospice is covered by hospice , also supplies covered. equipment e.g. oxygen, bed side commode, hospital bed