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Alabama Hospice Care Services
Andalusia AL - Alabama pain management -- Mid-South Home Health, Covington County - Click to request assistance
Anniston AL - Alabama palliative care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Anniston, Calhoun County - Click to request assistance
Anniston AL - Alabama care for dying -- Mid-South Home Health, Calhoun County - Click to request assistance
Ashland AL - Alabama hospice care -- Clay County Hospital Home Care, Llc, Clay County - Click to request assistance
Athens AL - Alabama pain management -- Athens-Limestone Homecare, Limestone County - Click to request assistance
Atmore AL - Alabama palliative care -- Atmore Community Home Care, Llc, Escambia County - Click to request assistance
Attalla AL - Alabama care for dying -- Gadsden Regional Med Ctr Hh, Etowah County - Click to request assistance
Auburn AL - Alabama hospice care -- East Alabama Med Ctr Home Care, Lee County - Click to request assistance
Bessemer AL - Alabama pain management -- Mid-South Home Health, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama palliative care -- Affinity Home Hospice Services
, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama care for dying -- Alacare Home Health & Hospice, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama hospice care -- Baptist Home Care Services, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama pain management -- Care First Home Health Of Jefferson County, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama palliative care -- Home Care Plus, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama care for dying -- Intrepid Usa Healthcare Services, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama hospice care -- Jefferson County Home Care, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama hospice care -- Comfort Care Home Health, Shelby County - Click to request assistance
Birmingham AL - Alabama pain management -- Mid-South Home Health Agency,, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Blountsville AL - Alabama palliative care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Blountsville, Blount County - Click to request assistance
Brewton AL - Alabama care for dying -- Amedisys Home Health Of Brewton, Escambia County - Click to request assistance
Camden AL - Alabama hospice care -- J Paul Jones Hospital Home Health, Wilcox County - Click to request assistance
Carrollton AL - Alabama pain management -- Medical Center Home Health, Pickens County - Click to request assistance
Centre AL - Alabama palliative care -- Cherokee Community Home Health, Cherokee County - Click to request assistance
Centreville AL - Alabama care for dying -- Bibb Medical Ctr Home Health, Bibb County - Click to request assistance
Chatom AL - Alabama hospice care -- Washington County Home Care, Washington County - Click to request assistance
Clanton AL - Alabama pain management -- Chilton Medical Center Home Health, Chilton County - Click to request assistance
Clayton AL - Alabama palliative care -- Barbour County Home Care, Barbour County - Click to request assistance
Collinsville AL - Alabama care for dying -- Dekalb Regional Home Health, Dekalb County - Click to request assistance
Cullman AL - Alabama hospice care -- Cullman County Home Care, Cullman County - Click to request assistance
Cullman AL - Alabama pain management -- Wmc Home Health Services, Cullman County - Click to request assistance
Dadeville AL - Alabama palliative care -- Lake Martin Home Health, Tallapoosa County - Click to request assistance
Daphne AL - Alabama care for dying -- Mercy Medical Home Health, Baldwin County - Click to request assistance
Daphne AL - Alabama hospice care -- Thomas Home Health, Baldwin County - Click to request assistance
Decatur AL - Alabama pain management -- Alacare Home Health & Hospice, Morgan County - Click to request assistance
Decatur AL - Alabama palliative care -- Hga Homecare Of Decatur, Morgan County - Click to request assistance
Decatur AL - Alabama care for dying -- Morgan County Home Care, Morgan County - Click to request assistance
Demopolis AL - Alabama hospice care -- Bryan W Whitfield Mem Hosp, Marengo County - Click to request assistance
Dothan AL - Alabama pain management -- Caresouth Homecare Professionals, Houston County - Click to request assistance
Dothan AL - Alabama palliative care -- Houston County Home Care, Houston County - Click to request assistance
Dothan AL - Alabama care for dying -- Medical Center Home Health Services (1), Houston County - Click to request assistance
Enterprise AL - Alabama hospice care -- Coffee County Home Care, Coffee County - Click to request assistance
Eutaw AL - Alabama pain management -- Greene County Home Health, Greene County - Click to request assistance
Evergreen AL - Alabama palliative care -- Conecuh County Home Care, Conecuh County - Click to request assistance
Fayette AL - Alabama care for dying -- Fayette Medical Ctr Home Care, Fayette County - Click to request assistance
Florence AL - Alabama hospice care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Florence, Lauderdale County - Click to request assistance
Foley AL - Alabama pain management -- Amedisys Home Health Of Fairhope, Baldwin County - Click to request assistance
Foley AL - Alabama palliative care -- South Baldwin Regional Medical Ctr Home Health, Baldwin County - Click to request assistance
Fort Payne AL - Alabama care for dying -- Amedisys Home Health Of Fort Payne, Dekalb County - Click to request assistance
Fort Payne AL - Alabama hospice care -- Dekalb County Home Care, Dekalb County - Click to request assistance
Gadsden AL - Alabama pain management -- Etowah County Home Care, Etowah County - Click to request assistance
Gadsden AL - Alabama palliative care -- Mid South Home Health Of Gadsden, Etowah County - Click to request assistance
Geneva AL - Alabama care for dying -- Geneva County Home Care, Geneva County - Click to request assistance
Georgiana AL - Alabama hospice care -- Reliable Home Health, Butler County - Click to request assistance
Gilbertown AL - Alabama pain management -- Magna Home Health Of Alabama, Choctaw County - Click to request assistance
Greensboro AL - Alabama palliative care -- Hale County Hospital Home Health, Hale County - Click to request assistance
Greenville AL - Alabama care for dying -- Tender Loving Care, Butler County - Click to request assistance
Grove Hill AL - Alabama hospice care -- Infirmary Homecare Of Grove Hill, Clarke County - Click to request assistance
Guntersville AL - Alabama pain management -- Marshall County Home Care, Marshall County - Click to request assistance
Haleyville AL - Alabama palliative care -- Northwest Home Health Haleyville, Winston County - Click to request assistance
Hamilton AL - Alabama care for dying -- Marion County Home Care, Marion County - Click to request assistance
Homewood AL - Alabama hospice care -- Affinity Home Hospice Services, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
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Huntsville AL - Alabama pain management -- Amedisys Home Health Of Huntsville, Madison County - Click to request assistance
Huntsville AL - Alabama palliative care -- Spectrum Home Health Agency, Madison County - Click to request assistance
Irondale AL - Alabama care for dying -- Tender Loving Care, Jefferson County - Click to request assistance
Jackson AL - Alabama hospice care -- Jackson Medical Center Home Health, Clarke County - Click to request assistance
Jasper AL - Alabama pain management -- Amedisys Home Health Of Walker, Walker County - Click to request assistance
Linden AL - Alabama palliative care -- Marengo County Home Health, Marengo County - Click to request assistance
Luverne AL - Alabama care for dying -- Hospital Home Health, The, Crenshaw County - Click to request assistance
Mobile AL - Alabama hospice care -- Alacare Home Health & Hospice (Mobile), Mobile County - Click to request assistance
Mobile AL - Alabama pain management -- Amedisys Home Health Of Mobile, Mobile County - Click to request assistance
Mobile AL - Alabama palliative care -- Infirmary Homecare Of Mobile, Mobile County - Click to request assistance
Mobile AL - Alabama care for dying -- Saads Healthcare Services, Mobile County - Click to request assistance
Mobile AL - Alabama hospice care -- Springhill Home Health And Hospice, Mobile County - Click to request assistance
Mobile AL - Alabama pain management -- Tender Loving Care, Mobile County - Click to request assistance
Monroeville AL - Alabama palliative care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Monroeville, Monroe County - Click to request assistance
Monroeville AL - Alabama care for dying -- Monroe County Home Care, Monroe County - Click to request assistance
Montgomery AL - Alabama hospice care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Montgomery, Montgomery County - Click to request assistance
Montgomery AL - Alabama pain management -- Baptist Home Health, Montgomery County - Click to request assistance
Montgomery AL - Alabama palliative care -- Intrepid Usa Healthcare Services, Montgomery County - Click to request assistance
Montgomery AL - Alabama care for dying -- Mid South Home Health Agency Inc, Montgomery County - Click to request assistance
Montgomery AL - Alabama hospice care -- Montgomery County Home Care, Montgomery County
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About Hospice Care
Many families or their loved ones' doctors often wait too long to order hospice. Hospice is a very valuable service and should be ordered at an earlier stage of illness. Many doctors or family don't often consider hospice for Alzheimer's, degenerative old age or other debilitating illnesses where a person is going downhill fast. They should.
It is unfortunate that many people who died in a hospital emergency room or who received heroic treatments to prolong life in a hospital may have had the alternative of dying at home in familiar surroundings, with family or other loved ones at their side.
When someone is in crisis or appears to be going downhill fast but there really is no hope for recovery, family often call 911 and start a process which can result in great stress and great emotional discomfort. The loved one who is dying ends up in a hospital and may die there or be transferred to a nursing home where death eventually occurs.
When there is no longer hope for prolonging life, especially when this decision is made months in advance, hospice is usually a better alternative to other medical intervention.
Hospice is a form of palliative care for patients who are terminally ill. A commonly used definition for terminally ill patients is, "patients who have a progressive, incurable illness that will end in death despite good treatment, and who are sick enough that you would not be surprised if they died within six months."
Hospice care is a valuable service and is generally underused except for terminal cancer patients. Hospice allows for compassion and dignity in the process of dying. Most families wait too long to have their doctor prescribe hospice from Medicare. It should be considered at an earlier stage.
Hospice involves a team approach using the following providers.
- Family caregivers;
- The patient' s personal physician;
- Hospice physician (or medical director);
- Nurses;
- Home health aides;
- Social workers;
- Clergy or other counselors;
- Trained volunteers; and
- Speech, physical, and occupational therapists, if needed.
The purpose of hospice
- Manages the patient's pain and symptoms;
- Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying;
- Provides needed medications, medical supplies, and equipment;
- Coaches the family on how to care for the patient;
- Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed;
- Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time; and
- Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.
A person can receive hospice from Medicare if he or she is:
- eligible for Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance), and
- the doctor and the hospice medical director certify that the person is terminally ill and probably has less than six months to live, and
- the person or a family member signs a statement choosing hospice care instead of routine Medicare covered benefits for the terminal illness, and
- care is received from a Medicare-approved hospice program.
A person may continue to receive regular Medicare benefits from his or her customary doctors for conditions not related to the hospice condition.
