Home Care & Phoenix Certified Hospice Services - Mendocino County
Home Care & Phoenix Certified Hospice Services - Mendocino County is a home health agency that provides skilled services to patients in the comfort and privacy of their own homes. We have carefully selected our home health specialists for their high professional standards, skills and outstanding personal qualities. Services of the Home Care & Hospice Service team may include:
- Registered Nurses
- Medical Social Work
- Speech Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Home Health Aides
When you’re sick, disabled, growing older or recovering from an illness, there’s no place more comfortable than your own bed, and no care better than that given by your family and loved ones. Often, all that is needed to maintain your health or hasten your recovery is the professional help of nurses, therapists or other healthcare specialists. Not only can home care often help you get better faster, it can help you get better less expensively. It's a cost effective health care alternative for individuals who:
- have a confining illness
- are recuperating form a hospital stay
- need skilled intermittent care to avoid a stay at a long term facility.
In order to qualify for home services you must:
- be under the care of a licensed physician
- have adequate physical facilities in you home for self care
- require considerable effort to leave home
- require intermittent skilled nursing or rehabilitative services.
For more information call 707-459-1818 or 800-606-9596
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Phoenix Certified Hospice
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Phoenix Certified Hospice is a special kind of care designed to provide sensitive and supportive care for people with life limiting illnesses. Phoenix Certified Hospice care seeks to enable the patient to carry on an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality at home.
Phoenix Certified Hospice
should be considered when a patient and the physician determine
that curative treatment is no longer effective or desired, and life
expectancy can be measured in weeks or months rather than years.
Referrals can be made by physicians or social service agencies,
as well as direct requests by the patient, family or primary caregiver.
The patient must have a local physician who will accept responsibility
of the overall care. It is preferred that an individual has a willing
and able caregiving person (or persons) at home.
Phoenix Certified Hospice offers comfort care, rather than curative treatment. Under the direction of a physician, Phoenix Certified Hospice uses sophisticated methods of pain and symptom control that enable the patient to live as fully and comfortably as possible. Phoenix Certified Hospice treats the person, not the disease. The interdisciplinary hospice team is made up of professionals who address the medical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patient and family. Phoenix Certified Hospice service as provided by a team of trained professionals; physicians, nurses, counselors, therapists and aides of the Phoenix Certified Hospice interdisciplinary team.
Provisions
provided to the patient and family under
Hospice Medicare or Medi-Cal benefit programs include:
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24-hour nurse availability to respond to problems
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Regular contact with nurses and home health aides
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Counseling support from social workers
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Spiritual counseling
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Physician consultation for symptom control
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Volunteer services and support
- Insurance billing services
- Occupational, physical and speech therapy
- Nutritional counseling
- Coordination of supplies, medications and medical equipment
- Short-term hospital care
- Respite care by experienced caregiver to east the daily stresses
- Bereavement counseling and support for family members for up to 13 months
For more information call 707-459-1818 or 800-606-9596