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One call puts you in touch with the Good Shepherd Hospice Referral & Admissions Department where a registered nurse coordinates your hospice needs. Patients, families, friends or health care professionals may initiate referrals.
Admission Office (631) 474-4422
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- Patient and family desire hospice care
- Patient has a life expectancy of six months or less if the disease follows its normal course
- Patient is not receiving curative therapies
- Patient has a primary physician who will continue to provide care, and will certify the patient’s prognosis
- Patient has a primary caregiver
- The home environment is suitable for meeting the patient’s needs.
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- The focus is on palliation rather than cure
- The patient need not be homebound
- The patient and family are the focus of care
- Medications related to the terminal illness for pain and symptom control, provided at no cost and often delivered to the home
- The plan of care is developed and implemented by an Interdisciplinary Team
- In home continuous care nursing is provided in time of crisis
- Bereavement support for 13 months
- 24 hr on-call RNs for telephone support or emergency visits
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- Would you be surprised if the patient was not here in 3-6 months?
- What is the prognosis and co-morbidities?
- What is the understanding of the patient and family regarding the diagnosis and prognosis?
- Has curative treatment been completed and goals are now centered on comfort and symptom control?
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