Find the Best Care for Your Loved One with Hospice Compare
Medicare recently launched a new site to help us find the best care for our loved ones with Hospice Compare. It’s a website aimed at helping us find the best care by sifting through the marketing pitches of the 30-40 hospices serving our area. How do families rate their experience of care? Once on the site, put in the zip code you’re looking for help in (say 77706 or 75951 ), and you’ll be presented with all the Medicare hospices that are licensed to serve that area. When you click on their name, you’ll get two sets of information: The top section is information from the Hospice Family satisfaction surveys sent out to…
How Do I Find the Right Nursing Home?
One of the most difficult decisions we make as we care for an elderly loved one is deciding if nursing home care is right for them. While we have several good nursing homes in Southeast Texas, making the best choice for your loved one can be tough – there is a website by Medicare to help: Nursing Home Compare , tho some of the information found is self-reported and not verified by 3rd party interviews. As reported recently: “many other top-ranked nursing homes have been given a seal of approval that is based on incomplete information and that can seriously mislead consumers, investors and others about conditions at the homes.” (NYT). There is a…
Hospice in Beaumont
We have a new commercial beginning to play in the next few days – in it the wife of one of our recent patients tells her story of how we were able to help them through a difficult time: “Compassion Hospice is about being with your loved ones and know you’re not alone.” Video expertise provided by the always excellent Russ with REF Video Productions. Thank you Russ 🙂
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