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2018 Hospice Honors
Compassion Hospice has been recognized, again, for giving some of the best care in the nation! Measured against thousands of hospices nation-wide the HealthcareFirst/Deyta Hospice Honors program bases their awards on many of the same things we as consumers of healthcare look for – what has been the experience of those who have actually used this hospice’s services in the past? “With increased transparency to the public eye, hospices have a greater incentive for quality performance improvement, as well as an opportunity to shine in a competitive market”. The Hospice Honors is a landmark compilation of hospices providing the best patient and caregiver experience… “This prestigious annual review recognizes hospices that continuously provide…
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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…
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What Does Dying Feel Like?
What does dying feel like? Science is Just Beginning to Understand the Experience of Life’s End. “Do you want to know what will happen as your body starts shutting down?” My mother and I sat across from the hospice nurse in my parents’ Colorado home. It was 2005, and my mother had reached the end of treatments for metastatic breast cancer. A month or two earlier, she’d been able to take the dog for daily walks in the mountains and travel to Australia with my father. Now, she was weak, exhausted from the disease and chemotherapy and pain medication. My mother had been the one to decide, with her doctor’s blessing, to stop…
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Thank You For Your Service
At Compassion Hospice, we honor all veterans – I had the extreme honor of meeting one of our local Army Veterans of the Vietnam War just this afternoon and saying thank you for your service . Times have changed, they didn’t come home with the respect and gratitude we try to show today. Below is a moving video from the people at moments.org. The Vietnam War marked a time of social unrest that divided our nation like never before. Service members returning home with physical and emotional scars were greeted with an unprecedented level of disrespect and dishonor. The courage and sacrifice of our veterans cannot be overstated. When you encounter them, thank…
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I Will Never Forget the Loving Care She Gave My Mom
Loving care, it’s the driving mission behind Compassion Hospice. We strive to provide the best hospice experience possible for our patients and their families – discussing it every day with every team member and every potential team member in their interviews. The results of our mission is best revealed when a family member takes the time to write back to us and/ or respond in the satisfaction surveys sent by another company to the family and then on to Medicare. I want to share a few of the notes sent back to our team from those families we’ve cared for over the last few months. Mellouise was wonderful! She showed my mom and…
More Moments, Made Possible
