The Lighthouse Community Hospice
Who Is Eligible?
Hospice and palliative care services are an option when curative measures are no longer available or desired.
Determining life expectancy – even during the course of a serious illness – may be difficult. Specific medical criteria serve as a guideline, but physicians are encouraged to consider all health problems and related factors when determining a patient’s eligibility for hospice.
- Anyone who has a life-limiting illness in advanced stages and needs supportive treatment and care. This may include end-stage lung, kidney, heart or neurological disease, or cancer.
- Any person who is no longer undergoing curative treatment. Hospice care should be considered when treatment begins to shift from curative interventions to symptom management.
- Anyone with a life expectancy of six months or less. Referral early in the terminal phase enables Hospice to provide the most supportive, personal environment for the patient and family.
- A person with a primary caregiver available for the patient’s comfort and safety at home. A patient who is able to provide self-care at the time of referral may be accepted for hospice care provided that arrangements can be made for future needs
- A person whose physician approves the referral and agrees with hospice principles of care.
- The patient and family are aware of the diagnosis and accept the hospice philosophy of care.
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We are all dying each and every day. Time waits for no one. However, it is on the days that we are breathing that we can CHOOSE how we will live.
This is essentially the meaning of Quaity of Life. We can assist you in choosing how you live and how you transition.