Hospice Care

Call Us First

Call Us First is vital to eliminating emergency room visits and rehospitalizations. Elara Caring reviews Call Us First with every visit and phone call with patients and caregivers to ensure they know how and when to reach us to support care.

Benefits include:

• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduces emergency room visits and hospitalizations
• Increases patient comfort by managing symptoms in the home
• Relieves anxiety because someone is always available to help
• Provides intervention before a health decline becomes a crisis

Advanced Heart Failure

The Advanced Heart Failure program is a congestive heart failure management partnership designed to equip hospice patients to successfully manage unique cardiac diagnosis needs.

Benefits include:

• Same day start of care
• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduced hospitalizations
• Provides superior quality patient and caregiver experience
• Custom care plan based on individual needs
• Supplemental oxygen if prescribed
• Modified diuretic therapy if prescribed
• Patient-specific durable medical equipment

Advanced Pulmonary Disease

The Advanced Pulmonary Disease program is a COPD management partnership designed to equip hospice patients to successfully manage unique pulmonary diagnosis needs.

Benefits include:

• Same day start of care
• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduces hospitalizations
• Provides superior patient and caregiver experience
• Custom care plan based on individual needs
• High flow nasal cannula if prescribed
• CPAP/BiPAP if prescribed
• Pleural drains management
• Tracheostomy care
• Patient-specific durable medical equipment

Bedside Care

By Your Side is specialized care available to our hospice patients and their families that is responsive to the changing care needs of patients showing active signs of end of life approaching. We use a team approach to offer increased presence wherever you call home so we will be there when you need us most.

Benefits include:

• Pain and symptom management
• Comfort for the patient and family
• Calming presence from all supportive staff
• Reading of inspirational text or scripture at the patient’s request
• Playing soothing music if requested
• Holding the patient’s hand
• Advocacy
• End-of-life education

Portrait Keepsake

Holding Hands Forever is a free portrait program that captures the special bond between patients and loved ones. An Elara Caring team member will take a closeup black-and-white photograph of the subjects “holding hands forever.” The printed, framed portrait will be delivered to the patient’s home or facility.

Benefits include:

• Creates lasting memories
• Provides a lasting keepsake
• Elara Caring team members coordinate at no cost to the patient or family

Mental Health for Caregivers

Our Mindful CARE program recognizes that the emotional and physical demands of providing care can strain even the most capable caregiver. This program provides support with:

Compassion
Acceptance to
Recognize and
Embrace

The program promotes awareness of mental wellness among patients and caregivers, improves early detection of new or exacerbating symptoms of anxiety and/or depression and facilitates effective follow-up interventions for caregivers who show significant signs and symptoms.

Homemaker Services

The Need a Hand program provides patients and families with an extra hand to help with light cleaning and laundering, disinfecting for COVID-19, grocery shopping, basic errands and more.

Benefits include:

• Increases patient care quality and safety
• Helps patients and families address COVID-19 concerns
• Provides extra support when patients and their families need it most
• Increases patient status awareness with another layer of caring
• Increases safety and sanitation

Transitioning from Hospital to Home

Elara Caring is equipped to help hospice patients navigate each turn with experience, compassion and expertise to provide care where you are.

Benefits include:

• Provides assessment and collaboration to ensure safety for activities of daily living including bathing, eating, dressing and toileting when arriving home
• Addresses medical needs by determining the level of care needed to stay at home, including ensuring that medications are managed, symptom management needs are managed and the right person is in place to make decisions
• Manages safety needs by ensuring the home environment and the care provided will meet the patient’s needs
• Provides a link to resources to ensure patients and their families are able to accomplish safe care wherever they call home

Veteran Recognition

As a We Honor Veterans program partner, Elara Caring is skilled at creating and providing a veteran-centric care plan for each patient that holistically addresses unique needs. Determining factors can include combat/noncombat, service era, branch of service, military occupation specialty and duty assignment. We also honor the service and sacrifices of veterans in our communities with pinning ceremonies that can be planned events in patients’ homes, at bedsides or in any care facility.

Benefits include:

• Address veterans’ unique needs
• Honor veterans’ service to our country
• Bring together veterans and veteran organizations
• Help educate the community about veterans’ needs and the unique challenges they may face
• Allow veterans to share their stories of service

Music Therapy

This hospice enrichment program is the prescribed use of live music by a board-certified music therapist, which assists in alleviating physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological pain. Music therapy is a nonthreatening form of communication that allows patients to share feelings both verbally and nonverbally.

Benefits include:

• Offers hope, meaning and a sense of purpose in the patient’s life
• Can be used to reduce pain, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure
• Increases life review to assist with closure for patients and families
• Increases relaxation
• Supports psychosocial environment
• Affirms the patient’s and/or family’s spirituality