A Continuum of Compassionate Care

The Shanti Niketan Hospice Home provides a comprehensive program of care to patients of all ages facing life-threatening illnesses. Hospice emphasizes palliative rather than curative care, although medical treatments are available as needed. Both the patient and family members are included in the care plan and emotional, spiritual, and medical support will be provided based on their wishes. Trained volunteers, many of whom are friendly faces from the community, are available to offer meaningful support and fellowship.

The Shanti Niketan Hospice Home provides personalized services and a caring community, so patients and their families may turn
their attention to very important and personal matters.

Residential

The Shanti Niketan Hospice Home offers residential hospice care to hospice-eligible patients. Our residential suites allow hospice patients to relocate to the Shanti Niketan Hospice Home as their residence. Residential hospice care models home hospice care by providing access to our medical team as a substitute for the 24-hour family caregiver in a home hospice situation. Patients and families who choose to stay at the Shanti Niketan Hospice Home long term are responsible for the room charge at the current daily rate. The daily rate covers the room charge, housekeeping, linens, and patient’s meals. Medicare continues to cover medical care, medications related to the hospice diagnosis, equipment, and supplies.


Inpatient

The Shanti Niketan Hospice Home offers inpatient suites for acute care hospice patients who qualify for general inpatient care. This short-term stay at the hospice home provides symptom control or pain management, medication adjustment, and counseling. While at the Shanti Niketan Hospice Home, both patient and family will be educated on symptom control medications and daily care of their loved one. This is a short-term stay, once the patient and physician deem it appropriate, the patient returns to their home setting.

Respite

If a family is having a difficult time taking care of their loved one at home, respite care may be an option. Home hospice patients may be temporarily admitted to the Shanti Niketan Hospice Home, for a maximum of five days, to give the family caregivers a break from 24-hour a day patient care. Respite care is covered by most hospice benefits and should be scheduled with the home hospice nurse or social worker. Meals are provided to patients and may be purchased by visitors.

Eligibility

Hospice care focuses on symptom and pain management for the patient and emotional, spiritual, and physical support for the patient and family when the patient no longer seeks curative treatments for a terminal illness. In general, to be eligible for hospice, a patient must:

  • Be diagnosed with terminal illness;

  • Must agree to comfort treatment instead of curative measures; and,

  • The patient’s physician must certify that the patient might have 6 months or less to live.

Hospice care focuses on the quality rather than the length of life, therefore, does not hasten or postpone death. Hospice exists in the hope and belief that each of us has the right to individualized care that affirms life and recognizes dying as a natural process that can be met with a richness of spirit, and that our families will receive the necessary support to allow their loved ones to do so.

To learn more about patient eligibility, please call the T.J. Samson Hospice Program at 270.651.4430.