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New Mexico Hospice Care Services

 

Alamogordo, NM    Alamogordo Home Care Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Ambercare Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Heartland Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Heritage Home Healthcare & Hospice , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Hospice De La Luz, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Hospice de la Luz , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Hospice of New Mexico, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Hospice Of The Sandias , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Inspiration Assisted Living, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Laurel Healthcare , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Lovelace Medical Center-Downtown, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Medical Support Service Inc, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Mt Graham Regional Medical Center Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    New Mexico Association Hospice Care, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Odyssey Healthcare Of Albuquerque , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Pmc Hospice Services Inc, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Presbyterian Outpatient , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Quality Continuum Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    University Home Care Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Vistacare , Otero County      Click to request assistance
Albuquerque, NM    Zia Hospice, Otero County      Click to request assistance
Belen, NM    Ambercare Home Health & Hospice, Valencia County      Click to request assistance
Carlsbad, NM    Golden Services Home Health & Hospice, Eddy County      Click to request assistance
Carlsbad, NM    Home Care Connection & Hospice, Eddy County      Click to request assistance
Carlsbad, NM    Lakeview Christian Home of The Southwest Inc, Eddy County      Click to request assistance
Carlsbad, NM    Landsun Landsun Hospice , Eddy County      Click to request assistance
Carlsbad, NM    Vistacare Family Hospice, Eddy County      Click to request assistance
Clovis, NM    Hospice of the Sandias, Curry County      Click to request assistance
Clovis, NM    Hospice of The Sandias, Curry County      Click to request assistance
Clovis, NM    Plains Regional Medical Center Hospice , Curry County      Click to request assistance
Clovis, NM    Plains Regional Medical Center Hospice , Curry County      Click to request assistance
Deming, NM    Ambercare Hospice, Luna County      Click to request assistance
Deming, NM    Mimbres Memorial Hospital & Nursing Home, Luna County      Click to request assistance
Deming, NM    Mimbres Valley Home Health & Hospice, Luna County      Click to request assistance
Espanola, NM    Ambercare Corporation, Rio Arriba County      Click to request assistance
Farmington, NM    Northwest New Mexico Hospice Pms, San Juan County      Click to request assistance
Farmington , NM    Basin Home Health Inc , San Juan County      Click to request assistance
Gallup, NM    Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, McKinley County      Click to request assistance
Hobbs, NM    Nor Lea Home Health & Hospice, Lea County      Click to request assistance
Hobbs, NM    Star Hospice, Lea County      Click to request assistance
Hobbs, NM    Vistacare Family Hospice, Lea County      Click to request assistance
Las Cruces, NM    Ambercare Home Health , Dona Ana County      Click to request assistance
Las Cruces, NM    Mesilla Valley Hospice, Dona Ana County      Click to request assistance
Las Vegas, NM    Alternative Home Health Care Hospice Agency, San Miguel County      Click to request assistance
Lovington, NM    Nor Lea Home Health & Hospice, Lea County      Click to request assistance
Mora, NM    Esperanza Home Health Care Hospice, Mora County      Click to request assistance
Roswell, NM    Roswell Home Care & Hospice, Chaves County      Click to request assistance
Roswell, NM    Vista Care, Chaves County      Click to request assistance
Roswell, NM    Vistacare-Roswell , Chaves County      Click to request assistance
Ruidoso, NM    Ruidoso Home Care & Hospice, Lincoln County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Ambercare, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Community Volunteer Care , Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Giving the Gift of Hospice, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Heritage Home Healthcare , Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Home Instead Senior Care, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Hospice Center The, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Hospice Center Thrift Store, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Odyssey Healthcare of Santa Fe , Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Pms Presbyterian Medical Services, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Santa Fe, NM    Pms The Hospice Center, Santa Fe County      Click to request assistance
Silver City, NM    Horizon Hospice, Grant County      Click to request assistance
Socorro, NM    Ambercare Home Health & Hospice, Socorro County      Click to request assistance
Socorro, NM    Socorro General Hospital Hospice, Socorro County      Click to request assistance
Truth Or Consequences, NM    Ambercare Home Health & Hospice, Sierra County      Click to request assistance
Tucumcari, NM    Hospice Helping Hands, Quay County      Click to request assistance

 

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About Hospice Care

Note: Many families or their loved ones' doctors often wait too long to order hospice. Hospice is a very valuable service and should be ordered at an earlier stage of illness. Many doctors or family don't often consider hospice for Alzheimer's, degenerative old age or other debilitating illnesses where a person is going downhill fast. They should.

It is unfortunate that many people who died in a hospital emergency room or who received heroic treatments to prolong life in a hospital may have had the alternative of dying at home in familiar surroundings, with family or other loved ones at their side.

When someone is in crisis or appears to be going downhill fast but there really is no hope for recovery, family often call 911 and start a process which can result in great stress and great emotional discomfort. The loved one who is dying ends up in a hospital and may die there or be transferred to a nursing home where death eventually occurs.

When there is no longer hope for prolonging life, especially when this decision is made months in advance, hospice is usually a better alternative to other medical intervention.

Hospice is a form of palliative care for patients who are terminally ill. A commonly used definition for terminally ill patients is, "patients who have a progressive, incurable illness that will end in death despite good treatment, and who are sick enough that you would not be surprised if they died within six months."

Hospice care is a valuable service and is generally underused except for terminal cancer patients. Hospice allows for compassion and dignity in the process of dying. Most families wait too long to have their doctor prescribe hospice from Medicare. It should be considered at an earlier stage.

Hospice involves a team approach using the following providers.

  • Family caregivers;
  • The patient' s personal physician;
  • Hospice physician (or medical director);
  • Nurses;
  • Home health aides;
  • Social workers;
  • Clergy or other counselors;
  • Trained volunteers; and
  • Speech, physical, and occupational therapists, if needed.

The purpose of hospice is the following:

  • Manages the patient's pain and symptoms;
  • Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying;
  • Provides needed medications, medical supplies, and equipment;
  • Coaches the family on how to care for the patient;
  • Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed;
  • Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time; and
  • Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends.

A person can receive hospice from Medicare if he or she is

  • eligible for Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance), and
  • the doctor and the hospice medical director certify that the person is terminally ill and probably has less than six months to live, and
  • the person or a family member signs a statement choosing hospice care instead of routine Medicare covered benefits for the terminal illness, and
  • care is received from a Medicare-approved hospice program.

A person may continue to receive regular Medicare benefits from his or her customary doctors for conditions not related to the hospice condition.

 
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