For Health Care Providers
For health care Professionals
Hospice offers Palliative, rather than Curative treatment. Under the direction of a physician, Hospice uses sophisticated methods of pain and symptom control that enable the patient to live as fully and comfortably as possible.
Hospice treats the Person not the Disease. The inter-disciplinary Hospice team consists of professionals who address the medical, emotional, physiological, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.
Hospice emphasizes quality rather than length of life. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death, it affirms life and regards dying as normal process. The Hospice movement stresses human values that go beyond the physical needs of the patient.
Hospice considers the entire family, not just the patient, as the “unit of care”. Patients, as well as families are included in the decision-making process during the course of care. Following the death of their loved ones, Hospice provides bereavement counseling to the family members.
Hospice offers help and support to patients and their families on a 24-hour-a-day, seven days-a-week bases. For Hospice patients and their families, help is just a phone call away. Patients routinely receive periodic in-home services of a nurse, social worker, volunteer, and other members of the Hospice multi-disciplinary team.
Your Role
You can help by considering “Al-Malath” Hospice for your patient when:
- - Your patient has a progressive, life threatening illness with a poor prognosis and with a life expectancy estimated in months.
- - Reasonable interventions to reverse or stabilize the disease process are of questionable efficacy.
- - Your patient’s primary goal of treatment shifts to relief of symptoms, control of pain, and improving quality of life.
- - Your patient resides in the area of the Great Amman Municipality.
- - There is a person available as a primary care giver, to coordinate your patient’s care and to assist in decision making.
Your involvement
As the referring community physician, you are free to choose your level of involvement in the patient’s care plan.
You may remain the primary physician providing direction and be available to the Hospice team in the home care program during days, evening, and weekends.
As the attending physician, you can:
- - Give initial orders.
- - Approve and update plans of care.
- - Update orders upon request.
- - Provide medical information to the Hospice team.
- - Attend team meetings if desired.
- - Consult Al-Malath Hospice physician if needed.
- - In return, the Hospice team will:
- - Visit your patient regularly.
- - Keep you informed of your patient’s condition.
- - Meet regularly to review and coordinate your patient’s care.
- - Suggest changes in the plan of care, as appropriate.
- - Consult with you on matters of medical direction.
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