Hospice Care Services

Hospice Partners of Kansas offers compassionate and experienced end-of-life care

Our services go beyond managing physical symptoms. We offer a wide range of hospice care services to help bring peace, acceptance and relief to you or your loved ones during the final stages of life.

There's no place like home

For most of us, there is no place quite as reassuring and comfortable as our home. That's why our experienced team provides education and guidance to make certain that you or your loved one receives competent, compassionate hospice care in the security of home. We will help you or your loved one live the final days of life to the fullest, in the comfort of home, surrounded by family.

Compassionate care & loving relationships are our priority

At Hospice Partners of Kansas we have a low nurse-to-patient ratio—usually one nurse cares for only eight patients. This means we can focus on more than simply managing physical symptoms. We seek to build loving relationships while we ensure dignity, encourage family support, relieve symptoms and control pain. In addition, we offer family bereavement support for at least a year after death. Based on the strength of our relationships, many of our patients and their loved ones consider us a part of their family.

The Hospice Partners of Kansas care team supports you or your loved one

Physicians and Hospice Nurses—offer you or your loved one assistance managing physical symptoms as well as expert medical care and pain management.

Medical Social Workers—serve as advocates for you or your loved one in obtaining government benefits—including the Medicare Hospice Benefit—and other services that are available to those diagnosed with a life-limiting illness.

Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists—work in conjunction with physicians and nurses to help optimize physical abilities and quality of life.

Chaplains and Spiritual Support Providers—offer spiritual and/or religious counseling to help you and your loved ones meet the future with acceptance and understanding when facing a life-limiting illness.

Trained Volunteers—are caring and supportive, providing a variety of services to you or your loved one including household tasks, reading, shopping, emotional support and more.

Additional support and assistance is provides by other caring members of the Hospice Partners of Kansas team.

Additional services include:

• Continuous Home Care
• Respite Care
• Homemaking Services
• 24-Hour Availability
• Recovery and Bereavement Support

Answers about hospice plan coverage and payment...

You might be wondering, "Is hospice covered by insurance?"

The answer is usually yes. Eighty percent of our patients at Hospice Partners of Kansas are over age 65 and qualify for Medicare coverage. Medicare (Medicare Hospice Benefit), Medicaid, Veteran's Administration, private insurance carriers, many HMOs most other insurance carriers provide:

• 100% coverage with no deductible and no co-pay
• Full coverage of medications related to the terminal illness
• Usual and customary medical supplies are also covered

Hospice Benefit Periods include:

• The initial 90 days
• The subsequent 90 days
• Extra 60 day extensions (unlimited)

Private payments are also accepted. Call Hospice Partners of Kansas and our experienced staff will help determine if you or your loved one qualifies for benefits.

Complementary alternative medicine modalities—such as massage and acupuncture—are not reimbursed by any insurance provider, including Medicare. However, we strongly believe that these services improve quality of life in a way that cannot be achieved by other means. That is why we continue to provide them at no cost to you or your family.