Can You Leave Hospice Care?

The American Cancer Society states: “If you get better or the cancer goes into remission, you can be taken out of the hospice program and go into active cancer treatment”. The problem is, if they are not doing anything to help you get better, what are the chances that you will get better? But it is important to know that you can go to an emergency room and tell them that you want out of hospice. At that point, they may then make it their goal to try to help you get help with improving your condition. What will encourage them to do this? Seeing the progress that you make from healing. Our clients heal and then return to their physicians to enlist their help again!

The Focus of Hospice is Palliative Care

Palliative care, according to the National Caregivers Library is comfort-care. In fact, it is called palliative care when it is administered by teams of doctors, nurses, and other professional medical caregivers. Palliative care can be administered in the home. Though it is most common to receive it in a hospital, extended care facility, or nursing home. There is a palliative care team as well. There are no time restrictions. This type of care can be received by patients at any time. They can receive it at any stage of illness whether it be terminal or not. In other words, palliative care is not about dying. Instead, it is about being comfortable at any stage of illness.