Select Hospice
Compassionate Care For Your Loved One
About Us
Select Hospice is driven by the philosophy of commitment to our patients, being renowned for our excellence in patient care and dedicated leadership team as well as care team as described below. The physical, spiritual, and emotional needs for each individual is unique; and our hospice team is committed to helping you and your family navigate this unknown territory ahead, supporting the best quality of life possible and believing you can find a sense of well-being with times of peace, joy and love during the season that lies ahead. Select Hospice comes to you with several years of experience from our leadership and care teams; our home health division has been servicing the central Indiana territory for over 11 years and have provided dedicated, compassionate care to over 10,000 plus patients during challenging times.
Hospice Interdisciplinary Team
Our Medical Social Worker evaluates and identifies any obstacles or safety concerns that might be of risk to the patient and/or the family, which could negatively impact the quality of life. They can help assist with long- term planning, advance directives, overall care options, crisis intervention, and community resource planning and coordination. Social Workers also provide counseling needs as needed, perform financial assessments, and offer education regarding coping with loss and navigating the unknown territory of this season. Also provided is grief counseling and bereavement assistance.
Our Chaplain assesses the spiritual needs of both the patient and their family/caregiver, provides support and comfort, and works in coordination with the interdisciplinary team to coordinate a plan of care. Chaplains provide direct counseling, active listening, life review. The care of a chaplain goes beyond prayer; they also offer bereavement services and assist with memorial preparations.
The hospice medical director oversees all the patient care, manages the patients admitting diagnosis symptoms, and manages their pain. Hospice Medical Directors work in coordination with your attending physician; but act as your attending physician in the event you do not have your own physician or choose to no longer utilize your previous primary care physician’s services.
The hospice RN case manager will assess the patient and family needs, develop a plan of care in coordination with the interdisciplinary team, and coordinate all of the patients care with the other hospice disciplines. RN case managers or licensed nurses that have been trained in symptom management of hospice related diagnosis. RN Case managers ensure terminal illness symptoms are controlled, pain is managed, and end-of-life & diagnosis education is provided to the patient and family/caregiver
The hospice aide provides personal hygiene care, companionship, and support to promote an increased quality of life and comfort. The hospice aide plan of care is determined by the RN case manager based on the comfort needs of the patient.
Hospice Volunteers provide companionship and support to both the patient and the patient’s family/caregiver. Hospice volunteers can provide companionship, sit with patients to relieve family/caregivers, read to patients, and so much more.
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Our Mission Statement
We compassionately provide individualized and ethical care to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of people in the last season of life, those facing a terminal illness. Your Select Hospice team understands that this journey is a difficult one for you and your loved ones. We believe you have the right to choose your own path and maintain dignity and autonomy, and our goal is to support you to make that possible. We consider it an honor to care for you through this season. We are committed to being available for you and your family 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Why Hospice?
The benefits of hospice have been overlooked for many years. Far too often hospice is either not utilized or called too late. Many families have stated that if they had known what hospice really was, that they would have sought it out much sooner. Hospice improves quality of life, optimized comfort, eases the burden of family/caregivers and allows for the patient and their loved ones to transition to this next season with greater ease. Simply put, hospice is Hope!
Who Qualifies?
Hospice is quality-of-life, comfort care for those diagnosed with an end-stage illness that (if it runs its normal course) offers a life expectancy of six-months or less. Life expectancy is based on your physician’s predictions or anticipatory prognosis; some hospice patients far exceed their six-month life expectancy. Statistics have proven that comfort and regular nursing visits has extended the life expectancy of those diagnosed with terminal illnesses. Patients that have chosen to end progressive treatment measures and focus on symptom management rather than curative treatment.
Hospice Services Include:
What illness are covered?
- Cancer
- Stroke
- Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- End-Stage Dementia/Alzheimer’s
- End-Stage Renal/Liver Disease
- End-Stage Cardiac Disease
- ALS
- Neurological Diseases
- AIDS
- Other Terminal Illnesses
Who pays?
Anyone with Medicare or Medicaid meeting the hospice eligibility requirements will receive care at no cost, 100% of all care costs are reimbursed by the government; this includes medical equipment, medications, care services and supplies. For individuals who do not have Medicare or Medicaid, hospice accepts private insurance and private
As a recipient of Federal financial assistance, Select Hospice does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services and benefits under any of its programs and activities, whether carried out by Select Hospice directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Select Hospice arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This statement is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at Title 45 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 80, 84, and 91.
In case of questions, please contact:
Provider Name: Select Hospice, LLC
Contact Person/Section 504 Coordinator: Amanda Chriswell, Vice President of Operations
Telephone number: 1-317-669-0077