Doctor’s Hospice is a hospice agency with three locations in Louisiana specializing in home health services for patients with life-limiting illnesses. Doctor’s Hospice...helping others find peace in troubled times.

1. An Introduction ToDoctor’s Hospice

2. What Is Hospice? Hospice is a healthcare approach that supports the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of those who have life-limiting illnesses.

3. The Goal of Hospice The goal of hospice is to allow the dying process to unfold with a minimum of discomfort, and maintain dignity and quality of life until the end.

4. The Team Approach At Doctor’s Hospice, we have a team of professionals working together to ensure the comfort of each individual patient.

6. a chaplain

7. volunteers

9. What Hospice Provides Symptom Management Counseling Medication related to the hospice diagnosis Medical equipment Any other services deemed necessary as related to the hospice diagnosis.

10. Common Hospice Myths Hospice kills people (practices euthanasia). Hospice is only for elderly or cancer patients. Hospice is only for the last few days of life. Hospice makes patients stop all medications. Hospice is only for people who are ready to die and fully accept their impending death. Hospice care is very expensive.

11. When Should I Call? Anyone can request an information visit from hospice (physician’s orders are not required). If a patient has a life-limiting illness and their physician feels like their disease process could end their life within six months hospice should be contacted. If a patient has weight loss, decrease in functional ability, decrease in cognition, decrease in mobility.

13. Lou Gehrig’s Disease

14. Multi organ failure

15. Failure to Thrive

17. Did You Know? Doctor’s Hospice is Joint Commission accredited. All Joint Commission accredited hospice agencies are required to perform satisfaction surveys to assess the family’s feelings about their hospice experience after the death of their loved one. Do you know what the most common complaint on the survey is?

18. If I Could Change Anything… If families could change one thing about their hospice care, it would be that they had been referred to hospice sooner.

19. What MakesDoctor’s HospiceSo Special?

20. Why Doctor’s Hospice? COMMUNITY We’re locally owned and operated. ACCREDITED Joint Commission Accreditation. EXPERIENCE and EXPERTISE

21. Why Doctor’s Hospice? INTIMACY More attention, personal care. DIVERSITY Broad spectrum of specialists. FLEXIBILITY and COMPASSION

22. We are hereto help youand we care…

23. Service Area Northeast Louisiana 318-325-6695 Toll-Free 877-325-6695 Capital Region 225-667-1340 Toll-Free 877-667-1340 Northshore 985-809-0844 Toll-Free 877-801-0844 Serving Northeasternand SoutheasternLouisiana from ouroffices in West Monroe,Walker, and Mandeville.

24. Helping others find peace in troubled times

25. www.doctors-hospice.com