Four kinds of care, moving fluidly as needs change.
A patient doesn't move through these in a straight line. The interdisciplinary team reassesses continuously and shifts the level of care as symptoms and circumstances change.
Palliative Care Consultation
For anyone living with a serious illness, at any stage — palliative care can begin alongside curative treatment, long before hospice becomes the right conversation. The focus is symptom relief, quality of life, and support navigating a complicated diagnosis.
- Pain and symptom management alongside ongoing treatment
- Goals-of-care conversations with the patient and family
- Coordination with existing specialists, not a replacement for them
Home Hospice Care
Routine home care — regular visits from the full interdisciplinary team, wherever a patient calls home — makes up the vast majority of hospice care nationally. When symptoms spike into crisis, continuous home care shifts to near-constant nursing presence to manage it without a hospital admission.
- Scheduled visits from nursing, aide, social work, and chaplaincy
- 24/7 on-call clinical support
- Continuous home care during acute symptom crises
Inpatient & Respite Care
When symptoms can't be safely managed at home, short-term general inpatient care provides intensive, round-the-clock symptom control until a patient can return home. Respite care offers family caregivers up to five days of rest while a patient stays in a monitored facility setting.
- General inpatient care for uncontrolled pain or acute symptoms
- Up to five consecutive days of inpatient respite for caregivers
- Return to routine home care once stabilized
Bereavement & Family Support
Support doesn't end when a patient dies. Every family receives structured bereavement care for at least thirteen months afterward — individual outreach, grief counseling, and support groups — because grief resurfaces at anniversaries and holidays long after the immediate loss.
- Grief counseling and support groups for at least thirteen months
- Individual outreach at key anniversaries and milestones
- Referrals to specialized mental health support when needed
Choosing hospice doesn't mean choosing to stop being cared for.
It means the goal of that care shifts from curing the underlying illness to making the time that remains as comfortable and meaningful as possible — a decision that can be revisited, and one the whole team is trained to support without judgment either way.