How you determine if the Hospice care is good!

If someone in family or friends is utilizing hospice care, how we can determine if it is good. Following are attributes of services which help us decide if hospice care is good or not.

1.       Promotion and protection of residents right: This means if Hospice have a set procedure to educate all employees, patients and family members about the patient rights who needs hospice care.

2.       The hospice interdisciplinary group should gather information from patient and family members to evaluate and modify plan of care to the changing needs of the hospice patient.

3.       Educating patient, family members and friends of patient who are involved in patient care helps significantly the quality of hospice care.

4.       Qualified personals (Doctors, Nurses, Nurse aids, Social workers, Chaplin and management staff) are among the most important factors to deliver quality hospice care.

5.       Attitude of staff for quality hospice care should include compassion, love and empathy.

6.       Patient engagement in various activities (mental, spiritual, social, recreational and creative) also improve the quality of care.

7.       Hospice should provide care maintaining all acceptable standards of care at all professional levels.

8.       Hospice should have a comprehensive infection control program to protect patient, family members, employees and visitors.

9.       The data driven quality assurance program is critical for the quality hospice care. This program should be able to identify any deficiencies, errors and measure the level of quality of care. Analysis of quality assurance help modifying strategies and the process to deliver best care.

10.   Employees performance measurement, on job training, employees training for hospice policies and procedures and continuing education are practices which help hospice to gain excellence.

Ameriprime  Hospice is the hospice care provider which is maintaining all of the above standards to deliver the best hospice care in Dallas, Plano, Richardson, Carrollton, Denton, Fort worth and many other cities of the Dallas Fort worth.