Home care can mean several things. The biggest blessing to hospice care is that it follows the patient wherever they go. Be that their personal home, assisted living or nursing home, hospice takes great pride in being able to care for patients where they want to be. Home care is also synonymous with our CNAs (certified nursing aides). Hospice of Lubbock has some the best CNAs in West Texas that provide assistance with the personal care of our patients. Our CNAs are the heart and soul of our organization due to the fact they often see the patient more than any other discipline. Hospice of Lubbock wouldn’t be able to function without of CNAs.

Many confuse palliative care with hospice. While all hospice patients are receiving palliative care, there are many palliative care patients that are not ready for, or do not qualify for hospice services.

Palliative care is the practice of treating symptoms associated with life-limiting or life-threatening illness. A patient may have stage 2 or 3 cancer and need help managing pain, but still be receiving treatment aimed at curing their cancer or placing it in remission. These are the patients that receive palliative care.

Once a patient’s condition is considered terminal, they have a life expectancy of six months or less; then they become eligible for hospice services.

Hospice of Lubbock is the only hospice in this area that provides services for pediatric patients (18 years and younger). We have provided this service since we opened our doors in 1987. While taking care of children with a terminal prognosis can be difficult, our team will tell you that our pediatric hospice patients often teach us far more about living than we ever imagined possible.

Hospice of Lubbock focuses on quality of life by easing pain and providing comfort. We are a non-profit hospice committed to every patient and their family who seeks our care, whether they have a way to pay for that care or not. This means our resources are not used to benefit shareholders but instead go back into services that benefit you and your family. It allows us to fulfill our mission of providing you with the very highest standards of care.

Some patients have Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance, but there are those who do not have billable insurance or the financial means to pay for end-of-life care when they need it. Hospice of Lubbock has never denied hospice services to an eligible patient based on their ability to pay. We rely on charitable donations to help offset the cost of our unfunded care. Patients with private insurance may need to meet deductibles and co-payment requirements. No patient will be denied hospice services due to complexity of disease, cost of care or inability to pay.

Grief is a process unique to each individual. No one can tell you how long and in what manner you should grieve, but there are elements of bereavement that are more or less common to all who pass through it. Understanding these common elements and how others have dealt with them can be of great help. Through our bereavement program at Hospice of Lubbock, we reach out a caring hand to the loved ones of patients who have died. We offer support in a variety of ways. Services include individual counseling, group counseling and support events throughout the year.

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Hospice of Lubbock is pleased to provide a music therapy program to benefit our patients and family, thanks to grants and major donors. Music therapy is far more than someone playing the piano or singing a song. It incorporates music into the complicated world of grief and bereavement. A music therapist can help those in their grief journey by recording a patient’s heartbeat and weave it into a song that is given to the family.