Embrace Hospice & Palliative Care
You don’t have to know what comes next.
We’re here to help you through it. Embrace provides compassionate hospice and palliative care for people facing serious illness, with a real person to help guide the next step.
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- Hospice Care
Comfort-focused end-of-life care centered on dignity, quality of life and support for patients and families.
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Specialized support focused on comfort, symptom relief and quality of life while living with serious illness.
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Not sure which type of care is right?
You don’t have to figure it out alone. Call Embrace and we’ll help you understand the difference between hospice and palliative care and discuss the appropriate next step.
You do not need to understand hospice or palliative care before starting a conversation.
Not sure what kind of support may fit? That is a reason to ask questions—not a reason to wait.
How can we help?
What Hospice Care Provides
Hospice brings an interdisciplinary team together around the needs, goals and comfort of the patient and family. Depending on the individualized plan of care, services may include nursing care, physician oversight, hospice aide services, social work, spiritual support when desired, counseling, plan-related medications, equipment and supplies, therapy when included in the plan, caregiver support, respite care when appropriate and bereavement support.
Understanding Medicare Hospice Coverage
For eligible Medicare beneficiaries, hospice is covered under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Eligibility includes certification by the appropriate physicians that the individual is terminally ill with a medical prognosis of six months or less if the illness runs its normal course, along with election of the hospice benefit.
When Should I Call Hospice?
Families often wonder whether it is too early to ask about hospice. You do not have to make that decision alone.
- More frequent hospitalizations or emergency-room visits
- Increasing weakness or sleeping
- Significant decline in eating or drinking
- Increasing help needed with everyday activities
- Symptoms becoming more difficult to manage
- A physician beginning to discuss comfort-focused care
These changes do not automatically establish hospice eligibility. Not sure? Call Embrace. A conversation does not commit you to hospice.
Care referrals shouldn’t create more work.
One call. We’ll take it from here. Embrace coordinates hospice referrals, palliative care referrals, and not-sure care consultations with the referring team, patient and family as appropriate. Clinical eligibility, care planning, and admission decisions remain individualized.
Care for the whole person.
Embrace is guided by compassion and grounded in faith while respecting every patient’s beliefs, values and traditions. Spiritual support is optional and directed by the patient’s preferences.
“Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.” — John 13:34
Hospice is a model of care, not only a place.
Hospice may be provided at home, in assisted living, in skilled nursing, or inpatient when clinically appropriate. Palliative care and hospice serve different circumstances; a conversation can help identify the appropriate next step.
You don’t have to make the next decision alone.
Contact Embrace. We’ll listen, answer what we can, and help you understand the next step.