Healthcare Professionals:
The Admissions Process

Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime. Community Hospice referrals can come from anyone, no matter their relationship to the patient. In addition to physicians, family members, friends or the prospective patients can make the initial call for a hospice consultation.

Along with the presence of disease-specific criteria, other factors help us determine if a patient is hospice-appropriate:

• The patient and family must want palliative care, which focuses on comfort and pain management rather than cure.
• The patient must have a life expectancy of one year or less.
• The patient must live in Duval, Nassau, Clay, St. Johns or Baker counties in Florida.

Patients referred to Community Hospice may live at home, in a nursing home or in an assisted-living facility, or receive care at a hospital. Once the physician approves hospice care, we contact the patient or family to set up an appointment.

Our admissions nurse then meets with the patient and reviews his or her chart, if available. The nurse also may perform a brief physical exam.

If the patient is appropriate, the nurse presents the required consent forms to be signed and arranges to move him or her into the most appropriate setting for hospice care.

Call 904.596.6500 or toll free 866.253.6681 for more information on Community Hospice referrals and admissions. Calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Call 904.268.5200 for general information or 904.596.6500 for referral and admissions information.
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