Your Patients Trust You. Trust Hospice to Help.
As a primary care physician, you are central to care decisions for your most seriously ill patients—even as they approach end of life. When clinically complex patients patients repeatedly present to the emergency department with advanced illness, hospice can help you manage their care more effectively:
- Provide expert symptom management and emotional support
- Reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and readmissions
- Support seamless transitions that align with patient and family goals
Trust VITAS Healthcare to provide coordinated, comfort-focused care that helps manage symptoms, reduce avoidable ED utilization, and support your team in caring for patients with advanced illness.
Case Study:
Patient with Advanced Heart Failure
After two days in the hospital, discharge care options were reviewed with AM’s daughter, including hospice, skilled nursing facility and home health. To honor AM’s wish to remain at home, AM was referred to hospice.
The daughter selected VITAS for its American Heart Association certification, ability to continue guideline-directed medical therapy and symptom management. VITAS coordinated a same-day discharge to home, including delivery of medications, supplies, home medical equipment and initiation of therapy services.
An entire team of clinicians with specialized cardiac training worked together to manage AM’s symptoms and make her comfortable at home. A VITAS physician, nurse, and aide visited regularly to manage her SOB and make her comfortable.
The same team collaborated with her cardiologist and provided AM’s daughter and family with education on how to take care of her at home. All of the equipment and medications AM needed were delivered to her at home by VITAS, including cardiac medications, inhalers, portable oxygen, hospital bed and a portable toilet.
A social worker helped with emotional issues and discussed AM and her daughter’s goals for her care, while a chaplain supported AM and her family with spiritual issues.
A grief specialist was available for up to 13 months after death to support AM’s family.
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