FOR PROVIDERS

Who Is Appropriate for Hospice Care?

Ambercare Hospice provides comprehensive physical, emotional, and spiritual care for people faced with an advanced or life-limiting illness.

Guides for Hospice Eligibility:

Patients must meet the following eligibility criteria to be appropriate for hospice care:

  • Patients with a prognosis of six months or less if the disease runs its normal course
  • Hospice can continue after six months as long as the patient continues to meet eligibility criteria
  • Prognosis is certified by a primary care or community physician and hospice physician
  • Patient and family desire palliative care as opposed to curative treatment

Hospice Services Include:

  • Nursing visits by experienced RNs who are on call 24 hours a day
  • Home visits by our physicians when medically indicated
  • Personal care by nursing assistants
  • Short term inpatient care
  • Respite care
  • Medications related to the hospice diagnosis
  • Medical equipment and supplies
  • Visits from social workers and chaplains who can provide spiritual support and counseling as well as assistance with community resources
  • 13 month bereavement program

Who Pays For Hospice?

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private Insurance
  • Veterans Administration

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Informational brochure of Ambercare Hospice services designed to offer comfort and support to patients with life-limiting conditions.
Ambercare Hospice Care PDF
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VOLUNTEER

Ambercare is seeking caring Hospice Volunteers across the state of New Mexico.

Become an Ambercare
Hospice Volunteer

Ambercare is looking for exceptional people with a tremendous capacity for caring to offer their services as a hospice volunteer. Hospice volunteers invariably say that this experience changes them. They learn to communicate in ways that increase their own appreciation of life, and their approach to daily living takes on a more holistic perspective. They gain a great deal of inner knowledge and are rewarded with personal satisfaction. If you would like to make a difference in someone's life, please click here to contact your local volunteer coordinator and find out how you can change a life.