Creating Seamless Transitions
by providing the highest standards of care, as we gracefully allow the natural processes of life to be fulfilled
What Is Hospice?
Lake Forest Hospice provides a distinct healthcare option designed to provide comfort, care, and dignity to the terminally ill instead of curative measures. It is a home-centered philosophy that affirms life by making a person’s final days more meaningful.
Lake Forest Hospice neither hastens nor promotes passing but eases the transition, reassuring both the hospice patient and their loved ones. We focus on comfort and symptom management, leading to a dignified transition.
Who Is Hospice Care For?
Hospice care is designed for those who have life-limiting conditions with a prognosis of six months or less, and curative treatments are no longer effective.
Revolving door visits to doctors, hospitals, and emergency rooms can be very exhausting and rob us of quality life. If treatments are ineffective, hospice care is the option.
Where Is Hospice Care Provided?
Hospice services are provided in the home where the hospice patient is surrounded by family, loved ones, and friends.
It could be a private home, a senior living facility, a nursing home, an apartment, an assisted living facility, etc.
Cost of Hospice Care
Hospice care is a benefit of Medicare, Medi-CAL, and some healthcare insurance providers. Most medical, incontinent care, and other supplies related to the terminal diagnosis are included.
Moreover, the hospice patient will be visited by Lake Forest Hospice nurses, chaplain, spiritual/bereavement counselor, bath aides (CHHA), social worker, and other professional clinical staff. All these are insurance-covered benefits.
Creating Seamless Transitions
- Registered Nurse
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Registered Nurse
- Assess care needs of patient.
- Identify needs of family and loved-ones.
- Develop plan of care to meet identifiable needs.
- Provide symptom control and pain management.
- Coordinate team visits.
- Ensure implementation of approved plan of care.
- Medical Director
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Medical Director
- Provides home visits.
- Co-certifies terminal illness with the attending physician.
- Leads inter-disciplinary group develop plan of care.
- Presides over inter-disciplinary group team meetings.
- Attending Physician
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Attending Physician
- Certifies terminal prognosis.
- Assess patient needs and prescribe treatment.
- Direct and approve plan of care.
- Coordinate care with interdisciplinary group.
- Social Worker
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Social Worker
- Assess patient, family and loved ones with social and financial needs.
- Develop plan of care for identified needs.
- Provide counseling and referrals to appropriate resources.
- Bereavement support.
Family Loved Ones
Lake Forest Hospice Patient
- Hospice Aide
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Hospice Aide
- Provide direct personal care to patient.
- Provide comfort care and other measures topatient.
- Report identifiable clinical needs to RN Case Manager.
- Volunteers
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Volunteers
- Provide respite for primary caregiver.
- Provide non-medical support and companionship to patient.
- Provide breavement support to family and loved ones.
- Equipment & Pharmacy
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Equipment & Pharmacy
- Provide medical supplies and equipment necessary for patient comfort.
- Provide medication and medical equipment for symptom control and pain management to ensure patient comfort.
- Chaplain
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Chaplain
- Assess spiritual needs of patient, family and loved ones.
- Develop plan of care for bereavement needs.
- Assist with memorial preparations.
- Provide direct spiritual, emotional and bereavement counseling.