A hospice brings comfortable care to every patient they have, regardless of being in a private or nursing home, an assisted living community, an elderly resident care facility, or hospice housing.
As suggested by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ definition, there are four levels of hospice care. A single patient can experience all four “kinds” in just a week or 10 days of Blue Monarch Hospice services. Another patient though may experience one kind of care for several months of hospice care stay. Remember that each level of care satisfies specific needs, and each Blue Monarch Hospice patient is considered a unique individual.
As a Medicare-certified hospice provide, Blue Monarch Hospice provides the following 4 kinds of care.
- In-home Blue Monarch Hospice Care
Blue Monarch Hospice supports patients and their families who have chosen hospice care at home. Routine visits from a Blue Monarch Hospice care team ensure patient dignity and comfort. Equipment, supplies, and some medications are provided at minimum to no cost.
Blue Monarch Hospice offers key support services to their patients and families while providing hospice care in-home. Necessarily, telecare clinicians are accessible thru the phone to answer questions and perhaps send someone to the patient’s bedside need-be.
- 24-Hour Blue Monarch Hospice Continuous Comfort Care
Blue Monarch Hospice continuous care can be defined as the giving of round-the-clock hospice care at home. When medically warranted, Blue Monarch Hospice care team workers labor in shifts of 24 hours a day to help patients stay at home through a difficult time. This is done instead of having patients admitted to a hospital. This level of care is suitable when patients have acute symptoms of a disease that is manageable by a primary caregiver.
When someone is receiving hospice care, family members should know that they can receive 24-hour home Blue Monarch Hospice care temporarily for a crisis, including uncontrolled pain, shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, incessant diarrhea, change in LOC or loss of consciousness, agitation, restlessness, and even seizures.
Blue Monarch Hospice care may involve extra attention from hospice nurses or aides, some support from a hospice doctor who will consult with the patient’s attending physician, and more focused personal care when the patient calls from home – whether a private residence, a nursing house or an assisted living community.
- In-patient Blue Monarch Hospice Care
Most times, the Blue Monarch Hospice care is brought to home patients as ill people usually want to be at home where they are in a familiar setting surrounded by familiar faces and where they can do familiar routines.
Blue Monarch Hospice offers in-patient care only for aiding assessments and the medical management of sudden, complex, or uncontrolled symptoms like pain or dyspnea that cannot be addressed at the patient’s home or in other setups.
- Qualifications for Blue Monarch Hospice In-patient Care
Some indications for the needs of in-patient Blue Monarch Hospice care may include but is not limited to acute deterioration in the level of consciousness requiring intensive nursing care, uncontrolled nausea, and vomiting, uncontrolled pain, unmanageable respiratory distress, administration of intravenous medications requiring vital monitoring, complex and/or frequent wound care and dressing changes that are unmanageable in-home, agitation or restlessness requiring intensive interventions, uncontrolled seizures and minor surgical and non-surgical procedures like paracentesis (removing fluid from the abdominal area) and the insertion of a permanent tube or drain.
- Where Blue Monarch Hospice In-Patient Care is Provided
In-patient care is provided in a Blue Monarch Hospice nursing facility or their free-standing hospice houses.
The environment in an in-patient Blue Monarch Hospice setting is remarkably different from that of a facility offering acute care. The atmosphere in an in-patient unit is calmer and more like home. Staffs move urgently but at an unhurried pace, always taking time to talk to patients and visiting family members, ready to answer their queries.
Everyone from the side of the patient – family, and friends regardless of age and time of appointment – may arrange for visits or overnight stays.
It must not be mistaken though for non-performance, as intensive pain and management of symptoms are always the goals of in-patient care to help patients return home to routine Blue Monarch Hospice care.
The Blue Monarch Hospice care team for in-patients does the symptom evaluation, intensive symptom management provisions, and round-the-clock care, and regular visit maintenance. Due to this, a Blue Monarch Hospice team can manage and control a patient’s symptoms in quite a short time. This period may usually take days when the patient can usually return home.
- Respite Blue Monarch Hospice Care
The fourth level of care is respite care when it comes to Blue Monarch Hospice services.
This service help caregivers in getting through as caring for someone who is sick can be stressful or someone in the final stages of life gives caregivers a different level of challenge. Requirements of care for these kinds of patients can be more frequent medications administration, specialized wound dressing/care, and feeding/toileting assistance. Not to mention, the uncertainty of death puts emotional pressure on the significant others or caregivers of a patient with an existing Blue Monarch Hospice level of care. Caregivers can not only lose sleep, living isolation, and worry, but can also result in fatigue, anxiety, and depression – referred often to as “caregiver burnout”. Caregivers may want to quit, a decision that could lead patients to be put under the care of a nursing home or other facilities.
It is also important to take care of a person nearing the end of life and teach themselves how to get plenty of rest and place little to no caregiver demands.
Blue Monarch Hospice define respite situations as such when caregivers are suffering from physical or emotional burnout or exhaustion from taking round-the-clock care, caregivers want to attend a family event like a wedding, graduation, funeral, and such; also, caregivers need to take care of patient becomes ill and cannot do this role.
Caregivers who took some time off for themselves more often than not are better at carrying out caregiver roles. Respite care from Blue Monarch Hospice is also beneficial to patients.