Home hospice helps you live your best life while facing a serious illness. A compassionate team helps you manage symptoms and reduce stress to enhance your quality of life.
Signs it May Be Time to Consider Hospice Care
Many people miss opportunities for comfort by waiting too long to consider hospice care. Signs that might indicate a person may benefit from hospice services include:
- Frequent visits to the Emergency Room
- Shortness of breath
- Unplanned weight loss
- Frequent falls
- Sleeping or resting more than usual
- Diagnosis of serious illness such as cancer or Alzheimer’s Disease
Home Hospice Care of CNS
As Utah’s first Home Hospice Care agency, CNS has developed a legacy of trust and compassionate service. We emphasize creating moments and experiences that provide peace of mind to our patients and their families. Our Hospice care professionals put health, dignity, comfort, and well-being first.
What Does Hospice Care Include?
- Home visits from physicians, nurses, home health care aides and volunteer companions
- In-home counseling and assessment visits as needed from social workers
- Access to spiritual counselors
- All medications related to the terminal diagnosis and pain management
- All home care medical equipment such as hospital bed, wheelchair and shower safety equipment
- Life Stories - a CNS volunteer brings recording equipment to capture your loved one's stories. The family receives a keepsake DVD of the recording.
- Bedside harp music provided by our thanatologist
- ‘No One Dies Alone’ - 24/7 companion support
- 12 months of bereavement services for family members
Special Programs for CNS Hospice Patients
The CNS Wish Program grants personalized wishes to our Hospice patients. The wishes provide the opportunity for our patients to relive a cherished memory or experience a new adventure.
The Honor Salute Program is for our Hospice patients. It gives pride and peace to our veterans while bringing together family and friends to celebrate what is often the final time these men and women are publicly thanked for their service. Veteran patients are saluted, presented with a certificate of appreciation and pinned with a veterans' appreciation pin.
CNS offers enhanced Grief & Bereavement support for our Hospice patients and their families.
Who pays for Hospice Care?
Hospice services are paid for through a variety of sources: Medicare, Medicaid, insurance plans or private pay. Call CNS today, and we will take care of everything from paperwork to billing so you can relax and focus on spending your precious time with your loved ones. If you think it might be time for you or your loved one to consider Home Hospice Care please call (800) 286-8442, and an associate will assist you in determining coverage options.
CNS Charitable Care may be available to help individuals and families who are uninsured, underinsured or who are facing economic hardships and do not have the means to pay for Hospice Care