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The Â鶹¹ú²ú (Â鶹¹ú²ú) recently partnered with Calvary Hospital to provide excellent hospice care. Hospice is a medical approach that strives to alleviate end-of-life pain and symptoms, while helping the patient live as fully as possible. Our hospice team works side-by-side with patients and families to support them and provide holistic, compassionate care. Hospice enables people with terminal illnesses to choose how and where they want to spend the rest of their lives.

What services does hospice at Â鶹¹ú²ú offer?

• Physical relief from pain and uncomfortable symptoms.
• Emotional support that helps patients and caregivers cope with loneliness, isolation and fear.
• Allowing for shared time with family and friends.
• Spiritual care for patients and their families.
• Help as patients make choices about advance directives.
• Bereavement support — we stay in touch with the family and caregivers for 13 months after the loss of a loved one.

Is hospice a place?
Hospice is really an approach to care. For Â鶹¹ú²ú inpatients, that approach is delivered in a six-bed dedicated section of Â鶹¹ú²ú’s medical surgery unit, located on the seventh floor.

Why a partnership with Calvary Hospital?
 

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Founded in 1899, Calvary Hospital is the nation’s only hospital devoted to providing hospice and palliative-related care to adult patients. Over the past 10 years, Calvary has partnered with other hospitals in the greater New York area to offer inpatient hospice care for patients and their families.

So who is providing care, Calvary or Â鶹¹ú²ú?
Both. The Â鶹¹ú²ú team retains responsibility for the day-to-day and hands-on care of the patient. Calvary’s expert team is on-site daily to collaborate, advise and provide end-of-life support for patients, their families and the teams at Â鶹¹ú²ú.

Can patients keep their doctor?
Patients are encouraged to continue with their personal doctors. Â鶹¹ú²ú and Calvary work with doctors to establish a plan that supports the quality of life for patients and their families.

Can hospice be at home?
Calvary Hospice can also provide hospice care wherever the patient calls home. In collaboration with the Â鶹¹ú²ú team, Calvary assesses the patient as to whether a home-based option is possible. If the patient is assessed as appropriate for home hospice care, Â鶹¹ú²ú and Calvary teams will coordinate the safe transition of the patient to home.

Who pays for hospice?

• Hospice is covered for patients with Medicare Part A.
• Patient selects hospice benefit instead of standard Medicare benefits for the illness.
• Hospice is also covered by most managed care and private insurance.

What if a patient changes their mind?

• Patients may revoke the hospice benefit at any time.
• If a patient chooses to revoke hospice status, Medicare or other coverage is reinstated.

How does someone become a hospice patient?
Referrals may be made by patients, family members, friends, hospitals, clinics, physicians, other healthcare professionals and community agencies. Call 718-472-1999 for more information.