Complete Palliative Care
When health becomes difficult to handle and the lights flicker on the chance of a cure, Hospice Care is an option you can look into. By recognizing your paths and being at peace with it, patients as well as their families become more receptive of the support services enabled through Hospice Care.
Hospice focuses on care and not cure. Expert caregivers, nurses, physicians and social workers and spiritual counselors make up the team of care professionals at Ziba Hospice. We express compassion for providing comfort to your living conditions at home.
Hospice diagnosis may include:
- • Metastasis malignancies
- • End-stage renal disease
- • End-stage cardiac disease (CAD, CHF, Cardiomyopathy)
- • End-stage Cerebrovascular disease (stroke)
- • End-stage Obstructive Lung disease
- • End-stage Alzheimer's disease
- • Multi-system failure (Failure to Thrive)
- • End-stage Liver Disease (Cirrhosis)
- • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- • All incurable diagnosis
Signs and symptoms most commonly associated with hospice appropriateness may include:
- • Progressive decline in function despite curative medical therapies
- • Increase weakness and fatigue
- • Uncontrolled or increased pain
- • Persistent weight loss
- • Frequent infection
- • Frequent hospitalizations
- • Decreased mental functioning (confused, withdrawn, bedbound)
- • Uncontrolled nausea
- • Progressive or acute dysphagia
- • Shortness of breath
- • Oxygen dependency
- • Uncontrolled progressive edema
- • Progressive renal insufficiency
Ziba Hospice services are available 24/7 and include:
- ✓ Doctor Services
- ✓ Nursing Care
- ✓ Medical Equipment (wheelchairs, walkers...)
- ✓ Medical Supplies (bandages, catheters...)
- ✓ Drug for Symptom control and Pain Relief
- ✓ Short-term Care, including Respite
- ✓ Home Health Aide and Homemaker Services
- ✓ Physical and Occupational Therapy
- ✓ Speech Therapy
- ✓ Social Worker Services
- ✓ Dietary Counseling
- ✓ Counseling to help you and your family with grief and loss
If you think you or your loved ones need palliative care, ask for it now. Tell your doctor that you'd like to request for hospice consultation.
Physician's Services
A physician can recommend hospice care for you or a family member. Generally, physicians will explore and exhaust all realistically possible options for a cure. However, upon hitting a point where a diagnosis will confirm the patient to be terminally-ill, hospice care service with the guidance of the physician is in order which can include life support methods, prescriptions for pain medication and other programs to lighten the draining symptoms of the disease.
Physicians who choose to be the Attending Physician for their patients can continue to bill for professional services:
- • Office
- • Home
- • In-patient
- • Visits
- • Care Plan Oversight
Nursing Care
Throughout the time that the patient is under the care of hospice, the nurse makes regular scheduled visits to the patient providing symptoms control, expert pain management, and keeps the primary physician informed of the patient's condition. Nurses provide the complete spectrum of skilled nursing care and are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The goal is to reduce stress on the part of family caregivers while working towards giving the patient the quality of life.
Social Worker Services
The hospice Social Worker's concern is to enhance quality of life and to promote well-being for patients, families, and caregivers. They provide psychosocial services to the patient, the family or the caregiver to help them cope with and adjust to the patient's illness, make final arrangements and assess bereavement needs.
The social worker may help with any number of the following:
- ✓ Identifying patient and family or caregiver's attitude and emotional response to the terminal illness, treatment interventions, and finding appropriate support as needed.
- ✓ Assistance with funeral planning.
- ✓ Ensuring the patient's end-of-life wishes are documented and known by assisting with advance directives, do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, and assisting patients and families in making health care decisions based on personal goals of care.
- ✓ Ensuring the patient's end-of-life wishes are documented and known by assisting with advance directives, do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, and assisting patients and families in making health care decisions based on personal goals of care.
- ✓ Assistance with insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid paperwork.
- ✓ Family Dynamics and communication patterns. Assistance with bridging family gaps to bring loved ones together whenever possible.
Spiritual Support & Counseling
Ziba Hospice focuses on the unique needs of patients and families. We strive to meet all of the patient's needs - physical, emotional, social and spiritual - as well as the needs of the family.
By giving you positive encouragement and sound advice, we hope to make your situation at home more manageable.
Hospice Chaplains are available to all patients, family members, and other loved ones regardless of religious affiliation for prayers, spiritual counseling, or support. They may offer prayer, communion, inspirational readings, or emotional support. The hospice chaplain is a non-denominational spiritual support person who is available to council and support hospice patients and their families.
Ziba Hospice can provide professional counseling to help you handle things better. To accommodate your needs, we have flexible schedules and we are readily approachable.
We know that hard times can make great impacts but the support you get from the people around you will truly make a difference.
Home Health Aide & Homemaking
Ziba Hospice is a provider of specialized care, assistance with daily living and dedicated personal care as part of the hospice services we give to patients. Home health aide performs duties according to plan of care developed by a registered nurse who supervises the care that they provide. Home health aides (HHA) are trained to provide care based on individual patient needs and usually includes:
- ✓ Shower, tub bath, or bed bath
- ✓ Shaving
- ✓ Dressing
- ✓ Oral and denture care
- ✓ Washing and grooming hair
- ✓ Care and cleaning of foley catheters
- ✓ Help with toileting or incontinent care
- ✓ Back rub/massage
- ✓ Transferring to and from bed and chair
- ✓ Turning and repositioning bed bound patients
- ✓ Range of motion exercises
- ✓ Assistance with ambulating (walking)
- ✓ Changing bed sheets
- ✓ Light housekeeping
- ✓ Companionship
Hospice Homemaker
A Homemaker can help with meal preparation and light housekeeping.
Volunteer Support
Volunteering to help is a rewarding thing to do. At Ziba Hospice, we have a generous line up of volunteers who choose to spend a dedicated time in their day with hospice care patients.
Our agency orients volunteers to effectively prepare them for the tasks and activities they will undertake. Their role in your home - and possibility in your life - is targeted to make your situation less daunting and more encouraging. We work to sustain a positive human environment for you at home or in the care facility you are currently confined to.
With a full heart to be with you in times of need, we make the last moments of your life worthwhile as you spend them with family, friends - and new friends out of the volunteers from Ziba Hospice.
If you want to become a volunteer for hospice care, please contact us.
Bereavement Support
The loss of a loved one can affect you or your family in many ways. Human beings were not built to be alone in our struggle with emotional battles and the aftermath of a death.
Bereavement support will come from a bereavement professional or social worker. Our schedules are flexible and we hope to attend to your emotional needs in the best way we can.