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[quote=Anonymous]If she is currently in home hospice, they don’t provide caregiving - a nurse will regularly visit to maintain comfort care and pain management but if the patient needs hands-on caregiving and the family cannot provide it, they must hire a private duty aide. If a patient’s death is imminent and they meet the criteria for inpatient hospice for management of clinical needs (for comfort care, not curative treatment), then they can be moved to the hospice facility (for example, Montgomery Hospice has an inpatient facility). If a patient’s needs cannot be managed at home, sometimes they move to a nursing home/LTC (long-term care) facility where they can continue to receive hospice care but the LTC is usually is usually private pay. Even if it’s following a hospitalization, Medicare will not cover the cost of rehab and hospice at the same time; if a patient goes to rehab with hospice, they must pay privately for the rehab.[/quote]
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