Hospice in Assisted Living and Nursing Facilities in Fremont, CA
If your mother lives in a memory care community or a board and care home in Fremont, that is her home. Hospice goes there. She does not have to move, and you do not have to choose between the place she knows and the care she needs.
Suncrest provides hospice care in assisted living communities, memory care, skilled nursing facilities, and the many small board and care homes across Fremont, Newark, Union City, and Hayward. Our team works alongside the facility's staff, adding the hospice-specific care they cannot provide on their own. It is one of the most common ways we deliver hospice care in Fremont.
What Hospice in a Facility Means
Hospice in a facility means the Suncrest team comes to the patient's residence in an assisted living community, memory care unit, skilled nursing facility, or residential care home. The facility continues to provide housing, meals, and its usual level of daily care. Suncrest adds the hospice nurse, the aide, the physician oversight, the social worker, the chaplain, the medications, the equipment, and the 24-hour line.
Hospice does not replace the facility, and the facility does not replace hospice. Families sometimes assume that a nursing home already provides end-of-life care. Facility staff are not hospice clinicians. They care for many residents and cannot manage complex symptoms, sit with a dying patient, or support a family through it. That is what we bring.
What Hospice in a Facility Looks Like in Fremont
Here is how Suncrest works inside facilities across Fremont and southern Alameda County.
Coordinating With Facility Staff
At admission, our nurse meets with the facility's staff to set the plan: who does what, how medications are handled, and how to reach Suncrest at any hour. We write the plan so it fits the facility's routine. Our aides schedule around the facility's care so nothing is duplicated and nothing is missed.
Suncrest's Visits
The hospice nurse visits to manage symptoms and adjust medications, more often than the national average. Aides provide personal care. The social worker and chaplain visit the patient and support the family. The physician directs the plan. Near the end, visits increase, and Suncrest is often present at the time of death.
Supporting the Family
Families of patients in facilities often feel guilty, or feel that they have handed their loved one off. Our social worker and chaplain help with that. They keep the family informed, involved in decisions, and supported through bereavement for 13 months after the death.
Who Needs Hospice in a Facility in Fremont
Hospice in a facility is for patients with a life-limiting illness who:
- Already live in assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, or a board and care home and want to stay there
- Have advanced dementia and are declining in a memory care setting
- Have needs beyond what family can provide at home, so a facility is the right setting, and they also need hospice
- Are being discharged from Washington Hospital, Kaiser, or another hospital to a facility with a hospice recommendation
- Have a family that lives far away and needs a hospice team as their eyes and ears in the facility
If your loved one is in a facility now and the staff or doctor has mentioned hospice, call our Fremont office. We can coordinate directly with the facility. For dementia specifically, see our guide to hospice care for dementia patients.
Is Hospice in a Facility Covered by Medicare?
Facility Hospice Coverage
Yes. The Medicare Hospice Benefit covers Suncrest's hospice services in full wherever the patient lives, including assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, and board and care homes. Medi-Cal covers it the same way and also covers the room and board in a nursing facility for eligible patients. Medicare does not pay for assisted living or board and care room and board, which the family continues to pay as before. Hospice services themselves are free to the family.
Suncrest handles the billing and authorizations. Call our Fremont office at 408-900-8838 and we will check benefits before care starts, so there are no surprises.
How to Get Hospice in Assisted Living and Nursing Facilities in Fremont
Starting hospice in a facility takes a call from the family, the facility, or the doctor. Here is what follows.
Call Our Fremont Office
Call 408-900-8838. Tell us where your loved one lives. We contact the facility and the attending physician to coordinate.
Nurse Assessment at the Facility
A Suncrest nurse visits your loved one at the facility, assesses them, confirms eligibility, and meets with the staff to build a joint plan.
Hospice Care Begins
Our team starts visiting, medications and equipment are arranged, and the family and facility both get the 24-hour line.
Questions About Hospice in Assisted Living and Nursing Facilities in Fremont
Facilities in Fremont routinely work with hospice, and most welcome it. Suncrest has working relationships with assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, and board and care homes across the Tri-City area. We coordinate directly so the family does not have to.
No. Hospice comes to the facility where your loved one already lives. The only time a move might come up is if the facility cannot safely meet the patient's needs, and in that case our social worker helps the family with options.
The facility calls Suncrest's 24-hour line, and so can you. A hospice nurse answers and comes to the facility if needed. Facility staff are trained on when to call us.
Yes. If Washington Hospital, Kaiser, or another hospital is discharging your loved one to a facility with a hospice recommendation, call us before or during the discharge. We can admit at the facility the same day or the next.
Other Hospice Services in Fremont
Hospice in a facility uses the same Suncrest team. Related Fremont services:
Hospice Care in Fremont, CA
The full overview of every hospice service Suncrest provides from our Fremont office.
Hospice Nursing Care
The nurse who coordinates with facility staff and manages symptoms.
Respite Care
Short facility stays for patients who are normally cared for at home.
Hospice Care at Home
For families whose loved one lives at home instead.
Hospice Where Your Loved One Already Lives
If your loved one is in a facility in Fremont and the staff cannot give them what they need at the end, hospice can. And nobody has to move.
Call our Fremont office. We will contact the facility and get started.
Call 408-900-8838 or contact the Fremont Suncrest team here. We answer 24 hours a day.
