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Hospice
care is a voluntary program with an approach to caring for terminally ill individuals
that stresses palliative care (relief of pain and uncomfortable symptoms),
as opposed to curative care. Hospice provides medical, social, psychological,
emotional, and spiritual services through the use of a wide range of professionals
and other care-givers with the goal of making the individual as physically and
emotionally comfortable as possible. An important goal of hospice care
is to keep the terminally ill patient comfortable in the patient's home or at
an in-patient facility until death.
Hospice Core Services
Substantially all hospice core services must be provided directly by hospice
employees on a routine basis. Hospice core services are:
- Nursing care
- Medical social services
- Counseling (including dietary, spiritual and bereavement counseling)
with respect to care of the terminally ill individual, and adjustment
to death; and
- Physician Services
Hospice Legislation
Conditions
for Coverage (CfCs) & Conditions of Participations (CoPs); (Minimum
federal health and safety standards for health facilities; 42
CFR Chapter 4, Part 418)
Michigan Administrative
Code
Hospice and Hospice Residences (R 325.13101 - 325.13543)
Michigan Public
Health Code (P.A. 368 of 1978); Hospices;
Part 214; MCL 333.21401...333.21421)
- Definitions,
Terminal Illness (Article 5, Part 56A, MCL 333.5653 )
- Hospice
Surveys, Evaluations, Consultations and Complaints; (Article 17, Part 201,
MCL 333.20155)
- State
Fees for Hospice Residences; (Article 17, Part 201, Section 333.20161(f))
Hospice Medicare
Provider Licensure Process
Hospice Residence Licensure
Process
Medicare Eligibility
The following criteria must be met to qualify for hospice care:
- Individuals must be entitled to Part A of Medicare to be eligible to
elect hospice care under Medicare.
- The individual's attending physician and the hospice medical director
or physician member of the interdisciplinary group must certify that the individual
is terminally ill.
- The individual must have been diagnosed with a terminal illness that
has a life limiting prognosis of six (6) months or less to live if the illness
run its normal course.
Contact Information
Michigan Department of Community Health
Bureau of Health Systems
Division of Licensing & Certification, Hospice
P. O. Box 30664
Lansing, Michigan 48909
517) 241-3830
105634
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