What Hospice Care Provides

Equipment, Medication and Supplies

Hospice Care Services arranges and pays for equipment, medication, and supplies related to the terminal illness. The patient’s physician and Hospices staff will monitor the need for additional medications, equipment and supplies, and make suggestions to the patient and family as appropriate. Although not all patients require adaptive equipment, medications or supplies, options are available and are intended to assist with symptom management, increase level of comfort, and ease pain.

Equipment may include, but is not limited to:

• hospital bed
• bedside commode
• walker
• wheelchair
• nebulizer

Medications can be added to the patient’s regime to assist with symptom and pain management.

Medical supplies may include, but are not limited to:

• oxygen tubing
• continence care supplies
• wound care supplies