What Questions Should I Ask When Choosing a Home Health or Hospice Provider?

So when you're choosing home health or hospice providers, there are a few I would always ask. One's location. You wanna know where their location is in general. You also know what they offer. Is it in home health care? Is it just in facility care? Is it at an ALS? You know, you wanna know where you're able to get this type of care. You know, you wanna make sure you have options, not just one or two. They are some are local, some are national, and some just offer more. Two huge thing you wanna check their licensing. You wanna make sure that they're reputable, They have all the licensing all the way around. When it comes to the hospice side of it, you wanna make sure that they have continuous care and respite care. Continuous care is when a person starts to really decline that they have twenty four hour service that's able to come in and care for them. Respect care is actually for the care giver. So when you're doing that type of it, it gives the caregiver a little break. And there are hospice facilities that will cover it under Medicare. For five days, if not a person has to pay out of pocket. And it is a big deal for that caregiver or loved one when they need to just step out for a minute, breathe. Get a break and know that someone is caring for their loved one. An insurance insurance is a big thing for everyone. You know, you wanna know what is covered. With hospice, usually ninety nine percent of the time, Medicare, Medicaid, VA. They will cover it and some private insurance some home health, it really depends. Sometimes it is covered by those insurances, but there is more out of pocket costs with home So you wanna check and make sure you know exactly where you stand.