Care that wraps around your whole family
Every discipline of expert care, coordinated as one team and brought to your home, so your loved one stays comfortable and your family does not carry this alone.
Medicare hospice benefit for eligible patients
Every discipline. One team.
All covered by Medicare at no cost to your family.
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In-home hospice care
Your hospice team comes to the house: nurses for pain and symptoms, aides for bathing and dressing, plus social workers, chaplains, and volunteers, all working from one plan of care. Between visits, a nurse answers the on-call line at any hour.
Team
Nurses, home health aides, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers
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Palliative care
Palliative care and hospice both focus on comfort, but they start at different points in an illness. We explain the difference in plain language, coordinate with your physician, and help you decide when hospice is the right next step. Nobody is signed up on a first conversation.
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Hospice nurses and social workers, working with your own physician
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Skilled nursing care
Experienced registered nurses provide medical care in the comfort of your home: pain management, symptom control, wound care, and medication management. Our nurses are specially trained in hospice and palliative care, so they know what this stage of an illness asks for.
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Registered nurses (RNs) and licensed vocational nurses (LVNs)
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24/7 on-call nursing
A hospice nurse answers our line at any hour, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Most calls are settled on the phone — a medication question, a change in breathing, a worry you cannot name. When they are not, a nurse can come to the home.
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Registered nurses (RNs) on call
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Pain & symptom management
Our medical team specializes in controlling pain and managing symptoms like nausea, shortness of breath, anxiety, and fatigue. Using a combination of medications, positioning techniques, and complementary therapies, we work to keep your loved one comfortable enough that the day belongs to them rather than to their symptoms.
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Physicians, registered nurses, and pharmacist consultants
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Emotional & spiritual support
Our chaplains and counselors offer steady companionship through the emotional weight of end-of-life — room for the hard questions about meaning, and for the quiet moments in between. Whatever brings your loved one comfort, we follow their lead.
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Chaplains, counselors, and trained volunteers
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Personal care assistance
Our trained home health aides help with the activities of daily living: bathing, dressing, grooming, and light housekeeping, always with dignity and respect. Alongside the practical help they bring steady company, and families come to count on their visits.
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Certified home health aides (HHAs)
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Respite care
Medicare covers up to five days of inpatient respite so the person doing the caring can sleep. We arrange the stay, the plan of care continues unchanged, and your loved one comes home afterward. Aide visits and volunteers cover the shorter breaks.
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Nurses, social workers, aides, and volunteers
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Social work services
Licensed social workers connect families with community resources, assist with advance directives and care planning, provide emotional counseling, and help navigate insurance and financial questions. They advocate for the patient and the family at every stage of care.
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Licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs) and MSWs
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Bereavement support
Grief doesn't end with loss. We provide bereavement support for families: one-on-one counseling, support groups, memorial services, and community grief resources. Our bereavement services are also available to anyone in the community who has experienced a loss.
Team
Bereavement counselors, social workers, and chaplains
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“No one should have to face the end of life without a team of people who genuinely care.”
Hospice levels of care
We help families navigate the level of hospice support that best fits the patient's needs, from routine home visits to respite and inpatient symptom management.
Routine home care
The most common level. Your care team visits regularly at home: nursing, aides, social work, chaplaincy, and volunteer support.
Inpatient respite care
Short-term care (up to 5 days) in a facility to give family caregivers a needed break. Your loved one receives the same attentive care.
General inpatient care
For symptoms that can't be managed at home, patients receive hospital-level care. Once stabilized, they return to their preferred setting.
What's included at no cost
The Medicare Hospice Benefit covers all of the following, for care related to the hospice diagnosis.
- Skilled nursing visits
- Physician oversight & care planning
- Pain & symptom medications
- Hospital beds & wheelchairs
- Medical supplies & oxygen
- Home health aide services
- Social work & counseling
- Chaplain & spiritual care
- Volunteer companionship
- Dietary counseling
- Bereavement support for families
- 24/7 on-call nurse
Serving the Central Coast
We care for families across the Central Coast, from Santa Barbara to Cambria.
- Santa Maria
- Orcutt
- Guadalupe
- Nipomo
- Arroyo Grande
- Pismo Beach
- Avila Beach
- San Luis Obispo
- Atascadero
- Templeton
- Paso Robles
- Cambria
- Lompoc
- Buellton
- Solvang
- Los Alamos
- Los Olivos
- Santa Ynez
- Santa Barbara
Start with a conversation
Call and tell us what is happening. We will walk you through the options for your loved one, with no obligation and no pressure to decide today.