Understanding Hospice
For 25 years, hospice has been a fully covered benefit under Medicare. Hospice is also covered by Medicaid, most private insurance plans, HMOs and other managed care organizations.
Hospice Services
Services at Home:
The goal of Hospice Care Network is to provide care wherever patients live. While the majority of our patients prefer to stay in their own homes, we also care for them in designated nursing homes or assisted living facilities, and at our specialized homelike hospice care center.

Services at The Hospice Inn:
The Hospice Inn may be appropriate for patients:

  • Whose pain and symptom management needs are greater than can be managed at home
  • Who are transitioning from the hospital to hospice at home
  • Whose caregiver needs a brief period of respite
  • Who are nearing the end of their disease progress

The Hospice Inn is beautifully furnished with 17 private rooms and amenities such as a family-style kitchen, sunroom and outdoor terrace, and offers patients and their loved ones privacy, comfort and quality of life. Sleep-in accommodations and a convenient central location along major highways on the border of Nassau and Suffolk Counties make for easy visiting any time, day or night.

HCN’s expert physicians, nurses and personal care aides are on staff at The Hospice Inn at Huntington to deliver quality medical care to treat the pain and symptoms of the patient’s illness, and our social workers, chaplains and trained volunteers are also on-site to provide counseling and companionship.

Services at the Hospice & Palliative Care Unit at Franklin Medical Center
The Hospice & Palliative Care Center at Franklin services patients in the final stages of life, as well as their families, with care and comfort in an inpatient setting designed to feel like home. Private rooms, homelike décor and parlors for family respite contribute to a peaceful, dignified environment. Patient s and their families are treated with the utmost compassion by a dedicated and responsive staff, and can take comfort in unlimited visitation and sleep-in accommodations.

Services in a Nursing Home:
When nursing home residents choose Hospice Care Network to assist with their care, we will work with the nursing home to enhance the patient’s comfort. While Medicare and most insurance plans will cover this, the patient will still have to pay the nursing home’s daily room and board fee. (For those on Medicaid, the room and board charge will be covered by Medicaid.)

Services for the Family:
Many issues arise when a family is facing the loss of a loved one. Because emotional and spiritual well-being are as important as managing pain and symptoms, a large staff of licensed social workers and chaplains play an integral role on our care team. We recognize that each patient and family is unique, and we strive to be responsive to the special needs of everyone we serve.

Our goal is for patients to have a peaceful, meaningful, end-or-life experience—one in which they have the time and physical capacity to get their affairs in order, have meaningful conversations with friends and loved ones, and resolve any unfinished “business” in their lives.

Hospice Care Network’s counseling team will:

  • Provide individual and family counseling
  • Assist the patient and caregiver with stress management skills
  • Help patients and families understand the feelings they may be having
  • Provide information and link the family to community resources they may need
  • Provide support and education regarding end-of-life issues
  • Meet jointly with patients and families to facilitate meaningful conversation and resolve issues
  • Help family members anticipate grief and bereavement issues
  • Provide special counseling for children who are close to the patient
  • Troubleshoot issues that may be affecting the patient’s quality of life
  • Provide bereavement counseling to family members for one year following the death.

At the request of the patients, Hospice Care Network chaplains will:

  • Offer prayer with patients and family members
  • Answer questions and discuss concerns about spiritual matters
  • Offer help in coping with common feelings such as loneliness, anger and fear
  • Help contact the patient’s own clergy, if desired
  • Facilitate receiving sacraments of the church

Click Here for Link to “Request for Service/Information” Form.

WE PROTECT PATIENT PRIVACY EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY!

HIPAA --- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) creates national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information. This law was enacted to protect patient privacy and improve the security, accuracy and integrity of the electronic transmission of health information.

HIPAA provisions affect providers (that means Hospice Care Network), payers, and all other entities that share in the exchange of health information. This new law requires that a privacy notice be given to all patients and makes it illegal to release health information to inappropriate parties, or fail to adequately protect health information from release. If violated, civil and criminal penalties can be incurred.

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I thank you from the bottom of my heart for getting my mom into the Hospice INN.  I had no idea there was such a beautiful place filled with beautiful, compassionate and caring people.  My husband and I, and many members of my family were in complete awe at the care my mother received.