General Inpatient

General Inpatient Hospice care is a care plan for hospice patients that require short-term facility-based care for symptom management that cannot adequately be provided with other types of hospice care.

General inpatient care is not intended to be for caregiver stress relief, like routine care, or respite. This service is aimed at ‘short term’ admission to a hospital or care facility for aggressive palliative interventions with the intent to discharge to a prior level of care when symptom control has been achieved. Hospice patients may require general inpatient care if they require:

• Analgesic needs that cannot be managed with routine or continuous in-home hospice care.
• Symptom management for nausea, vomiting, respiratory distress, seizures, advanced open wounds, or bleeding that would not be controllable without resources provided by a care facility.

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