Hospice of Spokane

Programs: Hospice of spokane offers care and support for terminally ill patients and their loved ones. Through in-home skilled nursing care, home health aides for personal care, spiritual support, grief and bereavement counseling services, patients and their loved ones are assured of the best possible quality of days to the end of life. The focus of care is on comfort and supporting quality of life when treatments aimed at cure or extending life are no longer desirable. Hospice care is for anyone, of any age, who is nearing the end of life. The hospice benefit through medicare, medicaid and most private insurance policies pays for medical care, prescription drugs related to the patient's terminal illness, respite care, medical equipment, supplies, and a full range of social services. Hospice of spokane served 2,248 unduplicated clients in 2017, providing 112,557 days of routine home care, 2,716 days of acute inpatient care, 268 days of respite care and 1 day of continuous care for the year ended december 31, 2017. The unreimbursed value of providing care to patients for all payers was 776,077 for the year ended december 31, 2017. In keeping with its mission, hospice of spokane (dba spokane palliative care) continues offering palliative care consultation to non-hospice individuals with life-limiting diseases. 295 patients were served by the palliative care certified interdisciplinary team, achieving improved adherence to treatment plans, assisting in optimal symptom control and improving quality of life despite life-limiting illness. 32 children under the age of 21 and their families received concurrent pediatric palliative care. In january of 2013, hospice of spokane further expanded our palliative care services to include primary care for individuals who have difficulty getting to and from a primary care provider. Doing business as mobile medicine of spokane, this care is provided by arnps with collaboration and guidance of our medical director. In 2017, 402 patients were served through mobile medicine of spokane. There continues to be more demand than we currently have capacity for. This is a much-needed primary palliative care service, focused on bringing primary care to individuals in assisted living and adult family homes.

when hospice patients are no longer able to manage at home, they can go to one of our two hospice houses to receive hospice care in an inpatient setting. We have a hospice house located in north spokane, which opened in 2014, and our initial hospice house, located in south spokane, which opened in 2007. Between the two houses, we have the capacity to serve a total of 24 patients (12 in each home). Residents of a hospice house have private rooms with many of the comforts of home and space for visiting family and friends. Residents continue to receive all of the medical, emotional, and spiritual care services that hospice of spokane offers. Physicians, nurses, nurse aids, social workers, grief counselor and chaplains all provide services to patients in the house. Being in a hospice house means patients can get the same level of hospice care they would receive in a hospital or nursing home. Hospice house is another option for that same level of care. The hospice houses provided a total of 6,985 patient days of care for the year ended december 31, 2017 to 948 patients and their families.

hospice of spokane provides individual and group grief counseling for anyone in the community who has experienced loss through the death of someone close to them. Master's-level counselors specially trained in grief and loss issues help the grieving identify and attend to their unique needs. Grief support groups provide a safe place to share one's pain with others who are grieving. Within the groups, each person is encouraged to express feelings openly and to give and receive support. Hospice of spokane provided more than 4,700 bereavement visits to community members of all ages for the year ended december 31, 2017.