Hospice Truths & Myths
Hospice TruthsHospice is a service that comes to your home and provides physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort in the manner you choose when you have a life-limiting illness. |
Hospice MythsHospice is a place you go when you have a life limiting illness. |
| Hospice care is appropriate when treatments are no longer effective or desired. An early referral to hospice enables patients and families to fully benefit from Brighton Bridge's support and service. | Hospice is only for the last few days or weeks of life. |
| Hospice encourages the patient's physician to continue to follow the patient and fully participate in their care. | Accepting hospice care means the patient can no longer see their own physician. |
| Hospice care is for patients and their loved ones during any life-limiting illness. | Hospice cares for only patients diagnosed with cancer. |
| Care is provided wherever the patient lives. Hospice encourages and assists patients to be as active as possible. | Hospice patients must be homebound. |
| Patients may choose to leave the program and seek more aggressive treatment. | Once a patient is admitted into a hospice program, they cannot choose to leave. |
| Hospice is very different. Many more services are provided and at less cost to the patient. | Hospice care is no different than home health. |
| There is NO requirement that states a patient must have a DNR order to receive hospice care. | Hospice patients must have a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order in place prior to obtaining assistance from hospice. |
| Hospice provides free bereavement support for families for 13 months after patient care ends. | Hospice services stop when patient care ends. |
| Many different medications are used to obtain a patient's comfort. | Hospice nurses encourage the use of morphine for all patients. |
Learn More About Brighton Bridge Hospice
Brighton Bridge Hospice provides a way of compassion for individuals and their families that are faced with a life-limiting illness.
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