Continuous Care

[aimeee]

Does your hospice offer continuous care? If so, I am interested in knowing what situations you generally offer it for. Do you have a specific trigger list? How often is it used? Do you use prn staff or otherwise? What is your continuous care census compared to your general census?

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

Originally posted by Mazzi

Our hospice is in the process of building a CC Center . It will have 14 beds with area to expand. It will be staffed with RN's and Aides. With an on-call MD. It will be used by 16 counties. I'm afraid we will be full with in a matter of days when it opens. There is such a need. Our hospice has never offered CC and I always feel bad for the families that really need this service. I feel we leave them hanging out to day.

I did home health in a rural area for years, and would have given ANYTHING, to have had access to a hospice facility. During one particular year, I had two really bad cases: one with metastatic ca, and the other was my first AIDS patient. I was up day AND night with both of them....and with no support from the Agency I worked for. God bless ALL of you!

[nurseb]

You might want to contact one of the larger Hospices to get info on CC. Try Hospice of the Florida Suncoast. They have a CC department. http://WWW.thehospice.org