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• Deciding When to Initiate Hospice Care
  
• One-On-One Attention
  
• Making Life Easier at the Nursing Home
  
• Adding to Your Quality Assurance Efforts
  
• Easy Billing
  
• Quicker Reimbursement
  
• Long-Term Care Options
  
• AmHeart - Be a Resource to You and Your Staff
  
• Standing With You at State Survey Time
  
• Compare AmHeart to Other Hospice Programs
  

Deciding When to Initiate Hospice Care

According to national statistics, the average length of stay for patients in a hospice program is about 50 days. The earlier the hospice team intervenes, the more satisfaction is expressed by patients and families. Referring to hospice earlier provides access to the full scope of hospice services available to the patient and family.

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We Provide One-On-One Attention

Our nurses, aides and care team members give undivided attention to the patient. They are there to see just one patient, to concentrate on one patient. We maintain a low nurse-to-patient ratio. This individual attention is delivered in your facility alongside your caregivers. The result is a family that is completely satisfied with the extra care and attention their loved one is receiving.

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We Make Your Life Easier

We will work with you to jointly develop an individual plan of care for each AmHeart patient in your facility. We adapt our program to your facility. We can use your pharmacy, your physical therapy department. We even comply with the manner in which you chart your patients.

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We Add to Your Quality Assurance Efforts

Our RN Patient Care Coordinators and our nurses monitor continually to make certain that all documentation appears in both your charts and files as well as ours.

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We Make Billing Easy

Once an item appears on the patient's Plan of Care, we provide it and we pay for it.

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We Reimburse More Quickly

We are responsible for our Medicaid patients' monthly room and board, minus the Patient Surplus. Once the patient is Medicaid approved, we typically reimburse within 30 days.

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We Need Long-Term Care Options

There are occasions when our patients and families at home ask for information about Nursing Homes. As their condition changes or worsens, they need the care and security of a long-term care facility. We are able to assist them in their decision making process.

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We Want to Be a Resource to You and Your Staff

Our newsletters and updates will keep you informed on your and our industry, and what may be affecting you in the near future. Our inservices are free and thorough. We cover topics such as Wound Care, Pain Management, Dealing with Loss in the Workplace and How Families Cope with Long-Term Illness, to name a few.

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We Stand With You at State Survey Time

If there is a question about hospice, hospice patient or policy at your facility, we will be here to answer the inquiry. We also provide manual and protocols.

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Compare AHH to Other Hospice Programs

When it comes to hospice, you have choices. All hospices are not alike; there are many to choose from. Make certain that you and your patient/residents are getting all they deserve. At AmHeart Hospice just meeting the standards is not enough. You see it in how we deliver our care, not just settling for good, when we can be better. (see the AmHeart Philosophy of Care)

Shortcuts just won't do. If you want all that we offer, you have to ask for us by name, our full name, AmHeart Hospice. There is a difference.

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