Four Levels Of Care
Each of our patient will have an individualized plan of care written and approved by our Caremark Medical Director alongside the patient’s attending physician. All care needs and goals that may include providing all hospice-related medications, appropriate medical equipment like a hospital bed, oxygen concentrator, and ample amount of supplies required to provide for the comfort, dignity, care, and safety of the patient.
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ROUTINE HOMECARE (RHC) LEVEL:
This is the most commonly used level of hospice care. This type of care is geared towards providing the help needed at the comfort of the patient’s own home. Additionally, this may be provided in a long-term care facilities, nursing homes, assisted living and residential care facilities.
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General Inpatient Care (GIP) Level:
This is like an acute hospital stay, for patient who cannot comfortably remain in a residential setting due to unmanageable pain and respiratory distress; delirium with behavioral issues which will necessitate intensive nursing intervention and close monitoring including skilled nursing care around the clock for frequent medication adjustments and imminent death where nursing needs are present.
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Continuous Care (CC) Level:
This is provided at a minimum of 8 hours up to 24 hours a day during any periods of extensive crisis in which a patient requires continuous nursing care e.g. intermittent high fever, intractable nausea and vomiting, increasing severe pain, dyspnea, restlessness, agitation and other discomforts not remedied by routine care despite constant adjustments in treatment requiring continuous monitoring.
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Respite Care Level:
This care level is to provide a brief break to the patient’s primary caregiver and is limited only to five (5) consecutive days. With this, the agency will arrange or help facilitate transportation and admission to other sites like a hospital hospice unit, or long term care facility.frequent medication adjustments and imminent death where nursing needs are