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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have personal experience, but the facility in Arlington has a good reputation, I think. Capital Caring Hospice. [/quote]Do they have a brick and mortar facility for full time hospice patients now?  When my father was in hospice with them it was at our house and the facility was for short term stays if I left town.  In home hospice is skeletal.  They had someone to come up to 3x a week for a bath, a nurse came once a week, the social worker came every other week and the doctor came at most once a month.  That was it, regarding care.  Otherwise they did well on getting equipment- a bed, a poop chair, a soft cushion for his wheel chair - things like that.

They will also come to nursing homes or other places, but they do not provide 24/7 care. [/quote]

Capital Caring does have an inpatient hospice. It's on the Sibley Hospital grounds. It is an acute inpatient hospice. I'm not exactly sure how you get access to it, but I think it can be used for respite stays (5 days) and to stabilize a patient when symptoms cannot be managed at home (e.g., IV pain meds). It's designed for stays &lt;2 weeks. It's 100% covered by Medicare.[/quote]

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