Hospice options in MoCo

[Anonymous]

I am helping someone whose spouse is going to need hospice at some point in the near future. They are interested in recommendations for both in home and out of home care. If you have recommendations for Montgomery County, particularly Silver Spring, please share.

Also, if you have thoughts about in home versus not when there are kids in the home, please share.

[Anonymous]

We used Montgomery hospice and had a good experience but it is team specific.

[Anonymous]

Oh, Montgomery Hospice has a facility but we did not use them. I think they are the only ones with a facility. I’m sorry you are going through this.

[Anonymous]

And, JSSA was the other recommended one but our nursing home staff preferred Montgomery hospice.

[Anonymous]

Montgomery Hospice is the only one in MoCo with an inpatient option. But their loved one would need to meet inpatient criteria, with clinical symptoms they cannot be managed at home, IV pain meds, etc. Otherwise, they’d have to do home hospice. They can call for more information.

Capital Hospice has both home and inpatient (at Sibley in DC) but I know nothing about them.

[Anonymous]

casey house is a wonderful resource but folks that go there generally only have a few weeks to live, in my experience.

at-home hospice the nurse comes every few days to adjust meds if needed and order or bring supplies, and other resources like folks to do sponge baths may come every few days as well, but the bulk of the care falls on the family or private care if the family has the resources to hire out.

[Anonymous]

My mom died at Casey House and it was an absolutely wonderful place. They made me feel so much better about the whole experience.

[Anonymous]

At some hospices, nurses love to give lethal doses of morphine. This was done by a nurse to my father in Montgomery County. Just be aware. They don't get caught, so this nurse is still out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At some hospices, nurses love to give lethal doses of morphine. This was done by a nurse to my father in Montgomery County. Just be aware. They don't get caught, so this nurse is still out there.

Most of the are the private ones. We didn't get that lucky and it was a very slow and miserable death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom died at Casey House and it was an absolutely wonderful place. They made me feel so much better about the whole experience.

Same. My mom had about 3 months with MH at my house and moved to Casey House for the last week of her life and I’ll be eternally grateful for that week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At some hospices, nurses love to give lethal doses of morphine. This was done by a nurse to my father in Montgomery County. Just be aware. They don't get caught, so this nurse is still out there.

If I’m suffering, or a loved one is, I hope I get one of these nurses.

[Anonymous]

Montgomery, hospice and Casey house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At some hospices, nurses love to give lethal doses of morphine. This was done by a nurse to my father in Montgomery County. Just be aware. They don't get caught, so this nurse is still out there.

If I’m suffering, or a loved one is, I hope I get one of these nurses.

And you would like to be left on a sofa alone to die? Not ideal in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At some hospices, nurses love to give lethal doses of morphine. This was done by a nurse to my father in Montgomery County. Just be aware. They don't get caught, so this nurse is still out there.

If I’m suffering, or a loved one is, I hope I get one of these nurses.

And you would like to be left on a sofa alone to die? Not ideal in my opinion.

Maybe not ideal - but if I've been given a high enough dose of morphine to kill me that likely I'm not suffering nor with it enough to know that I'm alone and dying. For me, it beats days/weeks/months of drawn out suffering - kinder for my family as well.

[Anonymous]

By the time people are on the high doses of morphine or fentanyl or methodone, they are in excruciating pain and have devoloped a high tolerance for these powerful medicines. No disrespect to the pp, but your understanding of what a nurse did or didn't do seems incomplete. Hospice is for terminally ill people. Death is near. Hospice nurses and volunteers provide a service of care and comfort to the dying and their loved ones. Perhaps your grief is complicated, pp?