Our Offering

Essence Hospice Care of Arizona collaborates with a dedicated interdisciplinary team to meet the needs of the patient. Essence Hospice Care will work closely with the patient, patient's loved ones, primary caregiver, and the patient's own physician to prepare an individual plan of care based on patient and family needs. Direct care is provided by the primary caregiver, if available, and augmented by the Essence Hospice Care team. Care is provided wherever the patient calls home. Hospice Services also provides medications related to comfort and the terminal diagnosis, supplies, and durable medical equipment that is needed. Essence Hospice Care is designed to support the care that the patient’s primary caregiver provides.

SERVICES WE PROVIDE


  • Hospice at Home
  • Condition-Specific Care
  • Bereavement and Grief Care
  • 24/7 Telecare
  • Home Medical Equipment
  • Music Therapy
  • Pet Visits


WHERE WE PROVIDE CARE


  • Patient’s homes
  • Nursing homes
  • Assisted living communities
  • Residential care facilities
  • Hospitals

HOW WE PROVIDE CARE


Our hospice care services are coordinated with the patient’s physician and provided during regularly scheduled visits by hospice care team members to manage the patient’s care. If a crisis should arise, we are able to respond 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ESSENCE also provides a continuum of other palliative care services to complement traditional hospice care, helping patients and families clarify their care goals and achieve comfort and symptom relief.

  ESSENCE HOSPICE CARE OFFERS FOUR BROAD TYPES 

  1. Routine Home Care. Routine home care is the basic level of hospice care provided in your home, assisted living, or nursing home. This level of care offers a team approach by hospice staff and your physician to provide comfort at the end of life. This hospice level of care includes medical social services, spiritual support, volunteer visits, bereavement counseling, medication, equipment, and all supplies related to your loved one’s hospice diagnosis.
  2. Continuous Home Care. The level of hospice care called continuous home care is when a nurse stays in your home for an extended period of time, if your loved one is experiencing a medical crisis and severe symptoms such as unrelieved pain or shortness of breath. However, during a medical crisis like this, your hospice physician or nurse may decide the general inpatient level of care will be a better option to address your loved one’s needs.
  3. General Inpatient Care. If the medical needs of the patient cannot be met effectively in the home by Essence Hospice Care, an advanced level of care that is more effectively provided by a local facility will be arranged to provide hospice services around the clock until the patient can return home.
  4. Respite Care. The respite level of hospice care is provided on an occasional basis and offers a planned, short-term break for unpaid family caregivers from the challenges of assisting a loved one with an advanced illness. It can only be provided at a Medicare-certified inpatient hospice facility, hospital, or skilled nursing facility that has the ability to provide around-the–clock nursing care should your loved one’s plan of care require 24-hour care. It is limited to up to 5 consecutive days.
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