• provides all the necessary medical and support services to manage the patient's terminal illness at home or in the nursing home. We are focused on hope that every day will be the best it can be.
• covers all prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, medical equipment and supplies required to treat terminal illness.
• provides residential care in patients' homes and has established partnerships with long-term care facilities and nursing homes, assisted living facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly.
• provide shifts of hospice staff at the home for a brief period so the patient can avoid being transferred to a hospital
• has special arrangements with local hospitals and other facilities where patients may receive necessary and appropriate care and return home as soon as possible.
• provides respite care for the patient’s primary caregiver.
• comes to the home any time that is necessary to respond to crises related to the illness and makes regular visits to provide hands on care.

Where are Hospice Services Provided?

• Home
• Skilled Nursing Facility
• Residential Care Facility
• Assisted Living Center

Your Personalized Care Team

Our mission is to care for each person the way he or she wishes to be cared for. The Pacific Hospice Care team includes professionals, paraprofessionals and volunteers who are sensitive and responsive to individual patient and family needs:

• Nurses are trained caregivers who provide hands-on care, education and support about the patient's illness and what to expect. An on-call nursing team is always available after hours and on weekends for visits or phone consultation. Other specialists, such as nutritionists and physical, speech or occupational therapists, may be added to a patient’s team as needed.
• Social workers are available as friendly and skilled listeners to provide emotional support and help with problem solving, financial issues and accessing various community agencies for additional support programs.
• Physicians work with the patient’s physician as well as to make house calls as needed.
• Home health aides are available to help with personal care, such as bathing or dental and mouth care, and can help with light cleaning, housekeeping, light laundry, heating meals and short errands.
• Chaplains offer spiritual support, working with the family’s clergy when available, to address the spiritual concerns of patients and family members within each patient’s individual belief system, as well as addressing concerns of a more generalized spiritual nature;
• Volunteers are specially trained and an important element of the hospice team, available to spend time when they are needed most.