If you're under the impression that palliative and hospice care are one and the same, that's not the case. Hospice care is for patients who are diagnosed as terminally ill, or whose death is expected within six months' time. Care may be performed at home or wherever the patience calls home (IE. skilled nurse facility assisted living). Palliative care is more focused on keeping a patient comfortable, typically as a complement to curative treatment protocol, provided in the clinical setting. Palliative care may be administered to terminal and non-terminal patients. Medi-plex Hospice is qualified to perform both palliative and hospice care.

Not necessarily. Hospice care is about helping terminally ill people make the most of the time they have left. The sooner they arrange for hospice care, the more time our staff has to get to know them, their family and friends, and the things they enjoy doing. Hospice care can be provided for an unlimited number of days, months or years depending on the illness. Call us in St. Louis Metropolitan area, to discuss your situation.

Any individual who has been given six months or less to live with a diagnosed medical condition, such as: 

Alzheimer's

Huntington's

Parkinson's

COPD

Stroke

Cancer

Heart failure

Liver disease

Renal (kidney) disease

ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)

...and others

In the majority of cases, hospice care can be provided at virtually no cost to you. Medi-plex Hospice in St. Louis, MO, is covered by:

• Medicare
• Medicaid
• United Healthcare
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri
• Healthlink
• Community Care Plus
• Mercy Health Plans

If for some reason you or your loved one are unable to pay for hospice, we can still help you. We would never turn away someone in need of our care! 

This is strictly up to you, your loved one, and their doctors.  Whatever they decide as far as life-saving measures go, Medi-plex Hospice will respect that choice.  

Medi-plex Hospice is happy to inform you that this is a myth! While hospice care is about keeping the patient comfortable, which may or may not be accomplished with medication, we let their condition run its natural course. However, if your loved one decides to pursue curative treatment and cease hospice care, they are within their legal rights to do so. 

Not at all! Medi-plex Hospice encourages patients to go out to lunch with friends, run errands, even exercise. Hospice care is about helping people live the way they want to live for as long as they possibly can. We can provide care in one's private home, assisted living or skilled nursing facility, or in hospital. Call our team in St. Louis, MO, to discuss hospice care for a loved one, or yourself.