Hospice Care
How Hospice Works
STAY in the comfort of your own home, wherever home may be. We serve patients in both private homes and long-term care facilities. We can also meet patients’ hospice needs in a hospital setting.
FOCUS on what matters most. Our compassionate hospice care team will create a plan of care designed to meet your unique physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs, allowing you and your loved ones to focus on spending time together.
LIVE your best life. Hospice is about living, about the quality of everyday life. Find comfort in the compassion and expertise available from our hospice care team 24 hours a day.
Hospice Provides Comprehensive Care
Hospice care is a specialized type of care for patients facing life-limiting illnesses. It was first described by Cicely Saunders, who lived in Great Britain and spent her days caring for terminally ill patients. Her years of experience led her to develop a concept called “total pain,” which recognized that the pain felt by a patient facing death is never only physical.
Saunders believed pain felt by terminally ill patients is multifaceted. She believed approaches to caring for these patients should be multifaceted, as well. The modern-day idea of hospice is built upon this concept of comprehensive care for those facing the end of life.
Today, because of Dr. Saunders’ work and research, hospice care addresses not only the physical and medical needs of patients with serious illnesses, but also the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of those patients as well. Hospice care is provided by physicians, nurses, hospice aides, licensed social workers, chaplains and volunteers and is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most commercial insurance plans.
In-Home Hospice Care
One of the primary benefits of hospice care is that patients can be treated where they live. In-home hospice care is designed to meet patients’ needs wherever they reside.
Magnolia Hospice’s team of professionals work to meet our patients’ physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs in the comfort of their own homes. Home for a hospice patient may be a personal residence, a loved one’s home, a long-term care facility or an assisted living unit.
Our nurses and hospice aides provide care designed to manage patients’ symptoms, keeping them as comfortable and pain-free as possible so they can make the most of every day. Meanwhile, our licensed social workers and chaplains provide emotional support and spiritual counseling to patients and their loved ones.
Physical, occupational and speech therapists serve patients as directed by their physicians as part of their individual plans of care, and registered dietitians are also available as needed.
Expert Care at the Highest Level
Each member of our patient care team is experienced in providing compassionate, responsive care to our patients. At Magnolia Hospice, our goal is to increase physical comfort, manage symptoms, decrease physical pain, promote emotional well-being and ensure spiritual peace.
To ensure the highest quality of patient care, Magnolia Hospice employs physicians specially trained in hospice and palliative medicine. Our nurses, social workers, chaplains, and aides are all trained in the unique model of hospice care, as well.
Hospice Care Wherever You Are
Magnolia Hospice provides services directly to patients in their homes—wherever home may be.
Private Residence or Group Home
Independent Living, Assisted Living or Skilled Nursing Facilities
Acute Hospital, Long-Term Acute Care Hospital or Rehab Hospital
Your Magnolia Hospice Team
Who Makes Up Your Hospice Care Team?
Items and Services Covered by Hospice
All medications related
to the hospice diagnosis
All Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
Most, if not all, of the patient’s
supplies
How Our Team Helps
We believe living with a life-limiting illness does not have to mean suffering with pain, fear, anxiety, frequent ER visits and other struggles. The Magnolia Hospice team provides expert pain and symptom management as well as psychosocial and spiritual care. We have specialized experience caring for patients with complex terminal diagnoses with the utmost compassion and empathy.
Caring for patients with compassion is our top priority. Our team is made of experts who can help to manage symptoms including:
- Pain/discomfort
- Nausea
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Constipation
- Edema/water retention
- Frequent falls
- Shortness of breath
- Recurrent infections
- Difficulty sleeping
How Our Team Helps
We believe living with a life-limiting illness does not have to mean suffering with pain, fear, anxiety, frequent ER visits and other struggles. The Magnolia Hospice team provides expert pain and symptom management as well as psychosocial and spiritual care. We have specialized experience caring for patients with complex terminal diagnoses with the utmost compassion and empathy.
Caring for patients with compassion is our top priority. Our team is made of experts who can help to manage symptoms including:
- Pain/discomfort
- Nausea
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Constipation
- Edema/water retention
- Frequent falls
- Shortness of breath
- Recurrent infections
- Difficulty sleeping
Payer Source
Hospice is covered at 100% by the Medicare Part A Hospice Benefit and the Medicaid Hospice Benefit. Services are also covered by many private insurances.
Hospice Locations
Magnolia Hospice is made up of multiple teams and locations to deliver our standards of excellence in patient care. Located throughout Texas, our teams work closely together with each patient, the patient’s loved ones and the patient’s facility partner.
