Curative Hospice Care

Since 2007 Congress and Medicare have realized that, with medical advances such as the CT-Scan, PET-Scan, open heart and by-pass surgery, radiation and chemotherapy that Medicare could not insist that hospice patients cannot take advantage of these possibilities,...

New Hospice Options

Many have been concerned that the changing Medicare programs will cease to provide hospice care but, as this quote from Investors.com explains, the new programs will actually open up more opportunities for patients:People in hospice care no longer have to give up...

Hospice Volunteers Make a Difference

Three mornings a week Kelsey Crawford starts her day in the company of an 89-year-old woman with short white hair. As she enters the home of the woman, she sees her sitting comfortably with a blanket snuggly wrapped around her body. Her head barely reaches the height...

Discussing Care

One issue that prevents some from utilizing hospice care is the simple fact that many doctors are resistant to discussing such issues with their patients until it may be too late to do so. This was the topic of a recent survey, described in the following quote from a...

Extraordinary Measures

When Hospice Care Corporation’s Regional Inpatient Care Center opened one year ago, their goal was to provide their patients with the highest level of service in a home-like caring manner. But, you’ll find that the Hospice Care Regional Inpatient Center is quite...

Hospice CNA

by Karen WilliamsA hospice is defined as a medical facility providing emotional and mental health care services for patients who are terminally ill along with their families. A CNA providing services in a hospice, is generally referred to as hospice CNA. A CNA with...