Our Services
We offer a wide range of Hospice Care Services including:
We provide expert pain and symptom management to ensure the patient is as comfortable as possible, and their quality of life is improved.
Our skilled nurses are trained in providing specialized care to individuals with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
Our certified Home Health Aides (HHAs) provide patient care, such as personal hygiene, dressing, and other activities of daily living.
We provide Medical Social Services to help patients and their families deal with the challenges that come with end-of-life care, such as emotional, social, and financial issues.
We offer spiritual care services, including pastoral counseling and psycho-social support, to support patients and their families’ spiritual and emotional needs.
We provide bereavement support to help families cope with their grief and loss.
OUR SERVICES
Mary, Queen of Angels Hospice works closely with patients’ primary care physicians, and we partner with hospitals, nursing homes, insurers, and community-based organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding counties to enhance our ability to address the discomfort, fear, and high expenses that often accompany incurable conditions. This collaborative approach is designed to meet the specific needs of the terminally ill and their families, promoting comfort and preserving dignity while offering options and choices that go far beyond accepted medical standards.
Mary, Queen of Angels Hospice provides care in patients’ homes, hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted-living communities/residential care facilities—anywhere our patients could benefit from hospice care. We support our patients and their families/caregivers with the best of what hospice care has to offer in a setting where the patient feels most comfortable.
In order to ensure that you receive the most complete personalized care, Mary, Queen of Angels Hospice offers a variety of flexible services that can be included in your hospice care plan by our interdisciplinary group to meet your individualized needs.
Routine Care
Routine Care includes regularly scheduled visits to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hospice patients and their caregivers. The hospice team travels to the patient’s home, whether that is a traditional residence, nursing home, assisted living, or any place the patient calls home.
Continuous Care
Continuous care is one of the four levels of hospice care in the Medicare Hospice Benefit and required by the Medicare hospice regulations. The regulatory definition of continuous care includes predominantly nursing care, covered for at least 8 hours, and up to 24 hours in a 24-hour period, beginning and ending at midnight. Either homemaker or hospice aide services, or both, may be covered on a 24-hour continuous basis during periods of crisis, but the care must be predominantly nursing care. The purpose of continuous care is to achieve palliation and management of acute medical symptoms.
General Inpatient Care (GIP)
General Inpatient Care is short-term relief for in-home hospice caregivers. Medicare benefits pay for patient transport and up to five consecutive days of GIP at a Medicare-approved nursing facility or hospital. You can receive GIP more than once, but only on an occasional basis. GIP enables the caregiver to rest and recover from the demands of daily in-home care. It is also appropriate when a patient’s medical condition warrants a short-term inpatient stay for pain or other symptoms that cannot be managed at home.
Respite Care
Respite care is short-term relief for in-home hospice caregivers. Medicare benefits pay for patient transport and up to five consecutive days of inpatient care at a Medicare-approved nursing facility or hospital. You can receive respite care more than once, but only on an occasional basis. Hospice respite care enables the caregiver to rest and recover from the demands of daily in-home care. Respite care is also appropriate when a patient’s medical condition warrants a short-term inpatient stay for pain or other symptoms that cannot be managed at home.
OTHER SERVICES
Medical Social Services
We provide Medical Social Services to help patients and their families deal with the challenges that come with end-of-life care, such as emotional, social, and financial issues.
Spiritual Care
Our certified Home Health Aides (HHAs) provide patient care, such as personal hygiene, dressing, and other activities of daily living.
Bereavement Support
We provide bereavement support to help families cope with their grief and loss.
Certified Home Health Aide
Our certified Home Health Aides (HHAs) provide patient care, such as personal hygiene, dressing, and other activities of daily living.
Hospice Services
An interdisciplinary group of professionals and volunteers will work with each patient’s family or caregiver to create a care plan that includes the following services as necessary.