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Washington Hospice Care Services

 

Bellingham, WA    Whatcom Hospice Foundation, Whatcom County      Click to request assistance
Bellingham, WA    Visiting Angels, Whatcom County      Click to request assistance
Centralia, WA    Assured Home & Hospice, Lewis County      Click to request assistance
Chehalis, WA    Assured Home Health & Hospice, Lewis County      Click to request assistance
Colfax, WA    Whitman Home Health & Hospice, Whitman County      Click to request assistance
Coupeville, WA    Home Health Care & Hospice of Whidbey, Island County      Click to request assistance
Deer Harbor, WA    Lahari Hospice Care Home, San Juan County      Click to request assistance
Ellensburg, WA    Home Care & Hospice of Kittitas Valley, Kittitas County      Click to request assistance
Ellensburg, WA    Hospice Friends, Kittitas County      Click to request assistance
Elma, WA    Harbors Home Health & Hospice, Grays Harbor County      Click to request assistance
Enumclaw, WA    Ashley House, King County      Click to request assistance
Everett, WA    Skagit Hospice Services Llc, Snohomish County      Click to request assistance
Friday Harbor, WA    Hospice of San Juan, San Juan County      Click to request assistance
Goldendale, WA    Klickitat Valley Home Health-Hospice, Klickitat County      Click to request assistance
Grand Coulee, WA    Okanogan Regional Home Health & Hospice, Grant County      Click to request assistance
Kirkland, WA    Eastside Hospice & Home Health, King County      Click to request assistance
Kirkland, WA    Hospice-Evergreen Hospice Center, King County      Click to request assistance
Long Beach, WA    Harbors Home Health & Hospice, Pacific County      Click to request assistance
Longview, WA    Community Home Health & Hospice, Cowlitz County      Click to request assistance
Lopez Island, WA    Lopez Island Hospice & Home Support, San Juan County      Click to request assistance
Moses Lake, WA    Cenral Basin Home Health & Hospice, Grant County      Click to request assistance
Mount Vernon, WA    Skagit Hospice Services, Skagit County      Click to request assistance
Oak Harbor, WA    Hompeplace Oak Harbor Skagit Hospice, Island County      Click to request assistance
Olympia, WA    Good To Be Home Care, Thurston County      Click to request assistance
Port Angeles, WA    Visiting Angels, Clallam County      Click to request assistance
Port Angeles, WA    Hospice of Clallam County, Clallam County      Click to request assistance
Port Townsend, WA    Jefferson Healthcare Home Health Hospice, Jefferson County      Click to request assistance
Pullman, WA    Hospice-Whitman Home Health & Hospice, Whitman County      Click to request assistance
Puyallup, WA    Good Samaritan Home Health & Hospice, Pierce County      Click to request assistance
Renton, WA    Dependable Staffing Community Hospice Services, King County      Click to request assistance
Seattle, WA    Evergreen Community Home Health & Hospice, King County      Click to request assistance
Seattle, WA    Hospice Of Seattle, King County      Click to request assistance
Seattle, WA    Visiting Angels, King County      Click to request assistance
Sedro Woolley, WA    Skagit Hospice Services, Skagit County      Click to request assistance
Sequim, WA    Assured Hospice of Clallam & Jefferson Counties, Clallam County      Click to request assistance
Shelton, WA    Assured Home Health and Hospice, Mason County      Click to request assistance
Silverdale, WA    Hospice Of Kitsap County, Kitsap County      Click to request assistance
South Bend, WA    Harbors Home Health & Hospice, Pacific County      Click to request assistance
Spokane, WA    Hospice Of Spokane, Spokane County      Click to request assistance
Spokane, WA    Horizon Hospice, Spokane County      Click to request assistance
Sunnyside, WA    Lower Valley Hospice, Yakima County      Click to request assistance
Tukwila, WA    Highline Home Health & Hospice, King County      Click to request assistance
Twisp, WA    Okanogan Regional Home Health & Hospice, Okanogan County      Click to request assistance
University Place, WA    Franciscan Hospice & Palliative Care, Pierce County      Click to request assistance
Vancouver, WA    Hospice Southwest, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Vancouver, WA    Ray Hickey Hospice House, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Vancouver, WA    Southwest Washington Hospice House, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Vancouver, WA    Community Home Health & Hospice, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Walla Walla, WA    Walla Walla Community Hospice, Walla Walla County      Click to request assistance
Yacolt, WA    Compassionate Care Llc, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Yakima, WA    Hospice Services, Yakima County      Click to request assistance
Yakima, WA    Hospice Services Memorial Hospital, Yakima County      Click to request assistance
Zillah, WA    Hospice Services Memorial Hospital, Yakima County      Click to request assistance

 

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About Hospice Care

Note: Many families or their loved ones' doctors often wait too long to order hospice. Hospice is a very valuable service and should be ordered at an earlier stage of illness. Many doctors or family don't often consider hospice for Alzheimer's, degenerative old age or other debilitating illnesses where a person is going downhill fast. They should.

It is unfortunate that many people who died in a hospital emergency room or who received heroic treatments to prolong life in a hospital may have had the alternative of dying at home in familiar surroundings, with family or other loved ones at their side.

When someone is in crisis or appears to be going downhill fast but there really is no hope for recovery, family often call 911 and start a process which can result in great stress and great emotional discomfort. The loved one who is dying ends up in a hospital and may die there or be transferred to a nursing home where death eventually occurs.

When there is no longer hope for prolonging life, especially when this decision is made months in advance, hospice is usually a better alternative to other medical intervention.

Hospice is a form of palliative care for patients who are terminally ill. A commonly used definition for terminally ill patients is, "patients who have a progressive, incurable illness that will end in death despite good treatment, and who are sick enough that you would not be surprised if they died within six months."

Hospice care is a valuable service and is generally underused except for terminal cancer patients. Hospice allows for compassion and dignity in the process of dying. Most families wait too long to have their doctor prescribe hospice from Medicare. It should be considered at an earlier stage.

Hospice involves a team approach using the following providers.

  • Family caregivers;
  • The patient' s personal physician;
  • Hospice physician (or medical director);
  • Nurses;
  • Home health aides;
  • Social workers;
  • Clergy or other counselors;
  • Trained volunteers; and
  • Speech, physical, and occupational therapists, if needed.

The purpose of hospice is the following:

  • Manages the patient's pain and symptoms;
  • Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying;
  • Provides needed medications, medical supplies, and equipment;
  • Coaches the family on how to care for the patient;
  • Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed;
  • Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time; and
  • Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.

A person can receive hospice from Medicare if he or she is

  • eligible for Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance), and
  • the doctor and the hospice medical director certify that the person is terminally ill and probably has less than six months to live, and
  • the person or a family member signs a statement choosing hospice care instead of routine Medicare covered benefits for the terminal illness, and
  • care is received from a Medicare-approved hospice program.

A person may continue to receive regular Medicare benefits from his or her customary doctors for conditions not related to the hospice condition.

 
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