721 Oxford Ave, Room 1130 Eau Claire WI 54703 715-839-4735

Hospice and Palliative Care Agencies Agency Contact Services Provided 3410 Oakwood Mall Dr #400 Heartland Hospice Eau Claire, WI 54701 Hospice Care (715) 214-2485 4257 Southtowne Dr #3 Interim Healthcare & Hospice Eau Claire, WI 54701 Hospice Care (715) 834-1313

Mayo Clinic Home Health and 1400 Bellinger Street Hospice Care Hospice Eau Claire, WI 54703 Palliative Care (715) 831-0100

2263 East Ridge Center Hospice Services Moments Hospice Eau Claire WI 54701

www.momentshospice.com 715-800-0900 Krista Otto, RN

1280 W Clairemont Ave #4 St. Croix Hospice Eau Claire, WI 54701 Hospice Care (715) 598-2635

2661 Co Hwy I St. Joseph's Home Health and Chippewa Falls, WI 54729 Hospice Care Hospice (715) 726-3485 Palliative Care

Hospice Care

Hospice is a philosophy of care meant to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort to those with life-limiting illnesses. Patients are referred to hospice generally when life expectancy is 6 months and no longer responding to, or wanting, cure-oriented treatments. Hospice provides a multidisciplinary team with scheduled visits from these professionals. Hospice provides comfort medication and needed equipment and can be provided wherever you call home. Hospice services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurances. Physician certification is required to receive hospice care. A patient or family can ask their doctor directly about it or they can call the hospice agency to inquire.

Palliative Care

Palliative care focuses on providing individuals with a serious illness relief from pain and other symptoms, with the goals to improve quality of life. Palliative care is available at any stage of a serious illness. A multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists, tend to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the individual and his/her family. Palliative care programs vary widely with some offering only inpatient or clinic visits and others offering visits wherever the patient resides. Hospice and Palliative Care Hospice Care Palliative Care Who might benefit? Anyone who: Anyone who: ▪ Is experiencing symptoms from the ▪ Is experiencing a life-threatening or end state of any chronic illness life -limiting illness ▪ Is looking for help with symptom ▪ Has uncontrolled symptoms or side control or emotional and spiritual effects support ▪ Needs extra emotional or spiritual ▪ Does not plan on further aggressive support treat ment such as surgery, chemo, ▪ Needs help with decisions about radiation or frequent blood transfu- treatment options or future health sions care ▪ Hopes to remain out of the hospital if at all possible ▪ Has a physician who can answer no to the surprise question What is provided? ▪ Scheduled visits from a ▪ Visits from a multidisciplinary team multidisciplinary team expert in end of including nurses, chaplains, social life care workers, counselors or other ▪ Around the clock availability by phone ▪ Help with managing pains or other or visit from a nurse symptoms ▪ Equipment needed for comfort ▪ Help talking through decisions about ▪ Medications needed for comfort and to treatment options treat the condition for which hospice is ▪ Help planning for the future involved ▪ Emotional and spiritual support for ▪ Bereavement support for family for patient and family while dealing with 13 months after a death serious illness How do you access it? ▪ Call hospice to request information ▪ Ask if a palliative care service is visit available in your facility ▪ Physician can suggest and arrange the contact call ▪ Patients or family can self refer What is the philosophy? ▪ Death is a natural part of life ▪ People should be able to make choices ▪ Individuals should live every moment about their healthcare and how they of their life until the very end want to live ▪ People would be able to make choices ▪ There can be a focus on comfort and about how they want to live. quality of life no matter what decisions are made about medical treatments Other thoughts Recent research shows that individuals ▪ Palliative care is not just for end of life, who receive hospice care live longer it is helpful at any stage of a life than those with the exact same illness threatening illness who continue to go into the hospital ▪ Palliative care is covered by most and receive aggressive care insurances often like a clinic visit would be covered For more information on palliative care, visit: www.getpalliativecare.org www.caring.org www.chippewavalleycarecoalition.org February 2020