Hospice care in Arroyo Grande

For most Arroyo Grande families, hospice is a benefit rather than a bill. Medicare Part A covers nursing visits, home health aide visits, medications for the hospice diagnosis, medical equipment such as a hospital bed, supplies, social work, chaplain support, volunteers, and bereavement care for the family afterward. Medi-Cal coverage is similar, and most private plans include a hospice benefit.

Medicare may still leave a small copayment for outpatient prescriptions and a share of the cost of inpatient respite care, and we verify your coverage and tell you what applies before care begins. Treatment for conditions unrelated to the hospice diagnosis stays with regular Medicare or your other insurance. We never require a financial contribution from your family, and we never turn anyone away for inability to pay. Because we already travel the 101 between Nipomo and the Five Cities, a social worker can bring the paperwork to the kitchen table in the Village, in Halcyon, or on the rural east side toward Lopez on the first visit.

Call at any hour and a real person on our team answers, nights and weekends included. A physician has to certify eligibility before care begins, and we help arrange that with your loved one's doctor. From there, admission is typically organized within 24 to 48 hours of the referral, and we usually deliver medications, a hospital bed, and other supplies within 24 hours of admission.

Arroyo Grande is about 25 minutes north of Santa Maria on Highway 101, on the same northern route that already takes our nurses through Nipomo and on into the Five Cities. The Village, Halcyon, and the rural east side toward Lopez sit on that loop. Hospice care is intermittent rather than live-in: your nurse sets a visit schedule with your family based on the care plan, and revisits it as needs change. Between visits, our on-call nurse is reachable by phone 24 hours a day, and we can send a nurse to the home for urgent support.