Our reliable hospice care services provide relief to patients and their loved ones
- Participate in patients’ admission, eligibility, and recertification decisions
- Create, oversee, review, and update patients’ plans of care
- Educate patients and their families on patients’ health conditions and medical needs and assist in making sensitive and difficult medical decisions
- Conduct in-home visits
- Lead and supervise other healthcare professionals, social workers, therapists, and nutritionists in ensuring patients’ comfort levels
- Coordinate care with patients’ primary care physicians (PCPs)
- Perform assessments at every visit
- Look after and take care of patients with ostomy, stoma, and catheter care needs
- Perform wound care tasks including cleaning, assessing, and treating wounds
- Provide direct support for patients with cardio-pulmonary illnesses
- Support patients with ventilator and tracheostomy care needs, including intubation, and mechanical ventilation
- Help patients with medication administration and management needs
- Provide counseling support to patients and their families and end-of-life care guidance
- Help patients and families manage emotional, physical, familial, and financial stresses and challenges
- Provide assistance in documenting patients’ end-of-life wishes and directives and with navigating important Medicaid/Medicare, financial, and legal paperwork
- Provide grief assistance and support
- Assess and help meet the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs of each patient
- Provide emotional and spiritual guidance and support to patients and family members
- Assist with the unique needs and provide specialized end-of-life support for veterans
- Assist patients and family members in planning memorial or life celebration services
- Arrange for the ordering, delivery, set up, and if applicable, return of medical equipment and supplies
- Orders medications and ensures that all supplies are replenished in a timely and orderly manner
- Ensure that medical equipment is working properly and is safe to use
- Educate patients and family members on the safe and proper use of medical equipment
- Assist patients with activities of daily living (ADLs)
- Provide physical and emotional support
- Communicate with and assist healthcare professionals to ensure that the care plan is being followed
- Provide emotional and practical support and help families make informed decisions about end-of-life care
- Provide non-medical, holistic support for death, dying, grief, loss, and remembrance
- Help individuals cope with death by recognizing it as a natural, meaningful, and important part of life
- Assist patients and family members with advance care or end-of-life planning
- Provide respite care and death companionship
- Help patients and family members with obituary and eulogy writing and organizing personal items and possessions
- Assist with funeral, celebration of life, or memorial planning
- Provide celebrant services and help with legacy projects and grief support
- Provide community death education and training
Our experienced in-house physicians perform the following crucial services for our patients:
- Participate in patients’ admission, eligibility, and recertification decisions
- Create, oversee, review, and update patients’ plans of care
- Educate patients and their families on patients’ health conditions and medical needs and assist in making sensitive and difficult medical decisions
- Conduct in-home visits
- Lead and supervise other healthcare professionals, social workers, therapists, and nutritionists in ensuring patients’ comfort levels
- Coordinate care with patients’ primary care physicians (PCPs)
Our skilled and compassionate nurses perform the following services:
- Perform assessments at every visit
- Look after and take care of patients with ostomy, stoma, and catheter care needs
- Perform wound care tasks including cleaning, assessing, and treating wounds
- Provide direct support for patients with cardio-pulmonary illnesses
- Support patients with ventilator and tracheostomy care needs, including intubation, and mechanical ventilation
- Help patients with medication administration and management needs
Our spiritual care counselors support patients with different religious and spiritual beliefs via the following services:
- Assess and help meet the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs of each patient
- Provide emotional and spiritual guidance and support to patients and family members
- Assist with the unique needs and provide specialized end-of-life support for veterans
- Assist patients and family members in planning memorial or life celebration services
Under the guidance of healthcare professionals, Solano Care team members provide the following critical services:
- Arrange for the ordering, delivery, set up, and if applicable, return of medical equipment and supplies
- Order medications and ensures that all supplies are replenished in a timely and orderly manner
- Ensure that medical equipment is working properly and is safe to use
- Educate patients and family members on the safe and proper use of medical equipment
Under the guidance of healthcare professionals, our hospice aides help our patients with the following tasks and activities:
- Assist patients with activities of daily living (ADLs)
- Provide physical and emotional support
- Communicate with and assist healthcare professionals to ensure that the care plan is being followed
Death doulas, also known as end-of-life doulas, help families and individuals navigate end-of-life care with the following services:
- Provide emotional and practical support and help families make informed decisions about end-of-life care
- Provide non-medical, holistic support for death, dying, grief, loss, and remembrance
- Help individuals cope with death by recognizing it as a natural, meaningful, and important part of life
- Assist patients and family members with advance care or end-of-life planning
- Provide respite care and death companionship
- Help patients and family members with obituary and eulogy writing and organizing personal items and possessions
- Assist with funeral, celebration of life, or memorial planning
- Provide celebrant services and help with legacy projects and grief support
- Provide community death education and training
Hospice care focuses on compassionate care that ensures the quality of life of a person with a life-limiting or advanced illness. Hospice care prioritizes the comfort of a person with a terminal illness.
Hospice is comfort-centric care without curative intent — this means that the patient no longer has curative options or has chosen not to pursue treatment because the side effects outweigh the benefits. Meanwhile, palliative care is comfort-centric care with or without curative intent.
Not necessarily. Hospice can be provided wherever the patient lives, regardless if it’s in the patient’s own home, assisted living, nursing facility, or in a different setting.
Your loved one will experience holistic, personalized, and compassionate care from our care team, which consists of a physician, a skilled nurse, a home health aide, a social worker, and a spiritual counselor.
Our empathetic and experienced social workers help our patients by extending the following services: