The Medicare Hospice Benefit covers all care, equipment and supplies related to a patient’s hospice diagnosis. Yolanda Rhodes, patient financial services manager, explains hospice benefits that are covered by Medicare, […]

While a doctor’s order is needed to receive hospice care, anyone can make the initial referral for care. Jennifer Howard, patient access manager, explains how to recognize when it may […]

Hospice care teams develop individualized plans of care based on each patient and family’s goals. Dr. Ted Winneberger, hospice physician, explains how hospice care meets those goals as life-limiting illnesses […]

Hospice care focuses on pain and symptom management, including anxiety and depression, to improve quality of life for the whole family. Kelly Erola, chief medical officer, explains the benefits of […]

Hospice respects each individual’s religious and spiritual beliefs. Jason Clamme, director of community engagement, explains how Lower Cape Fear LifeCare’s chaplains help care for each patient and family’s spiritual and […]

Losing a loved one is a life-changing event. Diane Miller, bereavement counselor, explains what Lower Cape Fear LifeCare’s grief care program offers families, and how grief care helps people heal […]

Everyone deserves the comfort that hospice care provides. Dr. Ted Winneberger, hospice physician, explains how life-limiting illnesses progress, and how the goal of hospice is to help people have as […]

We hear it all the time: “We wish we’d called hospice sooner.” Dr. Kelly Erola, chief medical officer, explains that hospice provides for months of care, and why the sooner […]

More than 90 percent of hospice patients receive care where they live. Dr. Kenneth Garm, hospice physician, explains hospice care’s interdisciplinary philosophy to take care of patients’ physical, emotional and […]