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Hospice and Discharge Planners - Working Together
Hospice wants to support you in your role as the discharge planner. Ways in which the Hospice team can assist you include:
- Communicating difficult information
- Facilitating family conferences
- Interceding with complicated family dynamic issues
- Assisting with difficult depositions
- Providing a fuller range of options available to discharge planners, patients, and families alike
- Identifying misconceptions by the family, which may be inhibiting their consent for a hospice visit. (These misconceptions include the view that patients generally die within days of a Hospice admission when, in fact, many hospice patients live six months, a year, or even longer.)
If there are ways that Hospice can better serve you in your role as a discharge planner, please call the hospice admissions department at 800-717-3811.
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