California Care Hospice, Inc.’s team of experts takes pride in providing our patients with personalized hospice care. These hardworking individuals are specialists in their professions, yet they work together to provide the best possible care to the patients they serve.
Our hospice team includes:
MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER
Medical Social Workers provide individual and family counseling to help meet the psychosocial challenges created by a terminal illness. The social worker also facilitates family communication, arranges support for caregivers, and helps to find financial and legal assistance.
HOSPICE CHAPLAIN
Chaplains provide spiritual counseling for people of all faiths, planning services and serve as a liaison between the family and clergy In the community.
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
Bereavement Coordinator offers a variety of services and provides support and counseling to patients’ families and caregivers related to anticipatory grief.
HOSPICE VOLUNTEER
Hospice Volunteers are kind and compassionate individuals who support patients and loved ones by providing respite care and friendly visits.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Hospice Medical Director collaborates with other members of the hospice team and the patient’s primary physician to help manage the patient’s discomfort and symptoms.
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
Attending Physician refers patients to hospice and remains the patient’s primary care physician while working as a member of the hospice team.
REGISTERED NURSE & LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSE
Registered Nurses are educated in hospice care and pain control, and they work with patients to establish and maintain comfort as well as the quality of life. Their responsibilities also include the education of family members to provide better patient care for their loved ones.
HOSPICE AIDES
Nursing Assistants are available to provide patients with bathing, personal and comfort care.