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West Virginia Hospice Care Services

 

Arthurdale WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospice Care Corp , Preston County      Click to request assistance
Beckley WV - West Virginia pain management -- Hospice Of Southern West Virginia, Inc. , Raleigh County      Click to request assistance
Beckley WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Hospice Of Southern Wv , Raleigh County      Click to request assistance
Beckley WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Pin Dhaliwal, Sanjit K, Md - Beckley Arh Hospital , Raleigh County      Click to request assistance
Beckley WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Pin Rhonda's Pharmacy & Home Med , Raleigh County      Click to request assistance
Belington WV - West Virginia pain management -- Mountain Hospice Inc , Barbour County      Click to request assistance
Berkeley Springs WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Hospice Of The Panhandle , Morgan County      Click to request assistance
Bridgeport WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Interim Healthcare , Harrison County      Click to request assistance
Ceredo WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Pin Right At Home Of The River Cities , Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Chapmanville WV - West Virginia pain management -- Dignity Hospice , Logan County      Click to request assistance
Chapmanville WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Dignity Hospice of Southern Wv Toll Free , Logan County      Click to request assistance
Charleston WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Hospice Kanawha , Kanawha County      Click to request assistance
Charleston WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospicecare , Kanawha County      Click to request assistance
Charleston WV - West Virginia pain management -- Hubbard Hospice House , Kanawha County      Click to request assistance
Charleston WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Right At Home In Home Care , Kanawha County      Click to request assistance
Clarksburg WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Unity Hospice Care , Harrison County      Click to request assistance
Copen WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospice Care Corp , Braxton County      Click to request assistance
Elkins WV - West Virginia pain management -- Hospice Care Corp , Randolph County      Click to request assistance
Elkins WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Hospice Care Thrift Shop , Randolph County      Click to request assistance
Fairmont WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Hospice Care Thrift Shop , Marion County      Click to request assistance
Fairmont WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Mva Hospice Of Marion Co. , Marion County      Click to request assistance
Glenville WV - West Virginia pain management -- Hospice Care Thrift Shop , Gilmer County      Click to request assistance
Grafton WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Hospice Care Corp , Taylor County      Click to request assistance
Huntington WV - West Virginia care for dying -- American Hospice Equipment , Cabell County      Click to request assistance
Huntington WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospice of Huntington Toll Free , Cabell County      Click to request assistance
Huntington WV - West Virginia pain management -- St Marys Home Health , Cabell County      Click to request assistance
Hurricane WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Pin A & A Care Givers , Putnam County      Click to request assistance
Kearneysville WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Hospice Of Panhandle , Jefferson County      Click to request assistance
Madison WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospicecare , Boone County      Click to request assistance
Man WV - West Virginia pain management -- Pin Arh Man Home Health Agency Station , Logan County      Click to request assistance
Marlinton WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Mountain Hospice , Pocahontas County      Click to request assistance
Martinsburg WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Hospice Of The Panhandle, Inc. , Kanawha County      Click to request assistance
Martinsburg WV - West Virginia hospice care -- The Hospice , Kanawha County      Click to request assistance
Morgantown WV - West Virginia pain management -- Hospice Care , Monongalia County      Click to request assistance
Morgantown WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Hospice Care Thrift Shop , Monongalia County      Click to request assistance
Morgantown WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Margeneral Hospice , Monongalia County      Click to request assistance
Morgantown WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Tender Loving Care , Monongalia County      Click to request assistance
New Martinsville WV - West Virginia pain management -- Hospice Care Corp , Monongalia County      Click to request assistance
Parkersburg WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Adventa Hospice, Inc. , Wood County      Click to request assistance
Parkersburg WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Houseclls Hm Hlth Hospice Ccmh , Wood County      Click to request assistance
Parsons WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospice Care Corp , Tucker County      Click to request assistance
Petersburg WV - West Virginia pain management -- Grant Memorial Hospice , Grant County      Click to request assistance
Princeton WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Hospice Of Virginias Inc , Mercer County      Click to request assistance
Reedsville WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Hospice Care Thrift Shop , Preston County      Click to request assistance
Romney WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospice Of Panhandle Inc , Hampshire County      Click to request assistance
Sistersville WV - West Virginia pain management -- Journey Hospice , Tyler County      Click to request assistance
Summersville WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Greenbrier Valley Hospice Inc. , Nicholas County      Click to request assistance
Thomas WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Hospice Mountain Inc , Tucker County      Click to request assistance
Wayne WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Hospice' Of Huntington , Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Weirton WV - West Virginia pain management -- Valley Hospice Inc , Hancock County      Click to request assistance
Welch WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Community Hospice Of America , McDowell County      Click to request assistance
Wheeling WV - West Virginia care for dying -- Professional Home Health & Home Care and St Gregory's Hospice , Ohio County      Click to request assistance
Wheeling WV - West Virginia hospice care -- Valley Hospice Incorporated , Ohio County      Click to request assistance
Williamson WV - West Virginia pain management -- Diginity Hospice Of South , Mingo County      Click to request assistance
Williamson WV - West Virginia palliative care -- Mingo-Wayne Home Health , Mingo 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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