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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) 465-6363
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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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