Hospice is a Special Kind of Care

Hospice is compassionate, patient-centered care, helping people and their families live with a life-limiting illness. Hospice care is focused on maintaining dignity, increasing quality of life, and providing comfort, including pain and symptom management.

At Butte Home Health and Hospice, we’ve been meeting this special need since 1987. Butte Hospice is one of the largest hospice providers in Northern California, offering personalized care and support to hundreds of patients and families each year.

Our teams of caregivers consist of registered nurses, physicians, hospice aides, homemakers, social workers, spiritual caregivers, bereavement counselors and trained volunteers. They provide palliative care to ease pain and discomforting symptoms. In addition, they provide psycho-social and spiritual support for both patients and their loved ones. Patients typically receive our services in their own homes, in nursing homes, or assisted living facilities.

Explore our site or call us to find out how we can help you. We have a nurse in our Intake Department who can tell you more about hospice and answer questions. We also have Educators, and even RN’s who can visit you and your loved one to discuss your options and answer questions.

In talking with families, the consensus is that it’s never too early to empower yourself with knowledge, and we have caring people dedicated to that mission.

If you’re just researching options at this point, you might find the following articles of help. These three articles are the most popular on our site:

  • We’ve been together nearly thirty years, and long ago, we promised to keep whichever of us fell ill at home and loved until the end. For the past ten weeks, your organization made it possible for me to fulfill my promise. Your wonderful people were at all times professional, critically helpful, caring and loving of us both. I have NO idea what I would have done without YOU.

    Hospice Spouse

  • My only wish was I would have got hospice involved sooner in this journey.

    Hospice Family Member

  • Because of your help, I got to sleep beside my girl longer. I got to hold her hand, read her silly stories, share some good friends with her and kiss her and touch her beautiful face when she (and I) needed comforting.

    Hospice Spouse

  • Hospice was able to provide the support and care my grandmother as well as our whole family needed. We cannot express how truly invaluable the whole team was to us.

    Hospice Family Member

  • Long ago, we promised one another to love and care for and protect one another until the end of time. I feel so horned to have been able to do that for her.

    Hospice Spouse

  • With hospice, my husband did not have to go back to the hospital – this helped both of us.

    Hospice Spouse

  • Everyone who came to the house was professional, friendly, compassionate.

  • My whole experience was terrific! I feel they provided the best of care for my aunt and provided me with information and support.

    Hospice Family Member

  • Having the friendship and knowledge shared was the greatest! His care was exceptional. Thank you dearly!

  • Hospice was awesome. Hospice gave us the help and support when we needed it the most. Thank you all.

  • We were happy we had hospice through this process.

    Hospice Family Member

  • I appreciate the call after my mom passed as I really needed the emotional help.

    Hospice Family Member

  • The advice and counseling was wonderful. Connie &  Kelli were so kind and helpful. It was a short, but very stressful time that they made more bearable - especially Kelli.

  • My husband looked forward to one of his nurse visits. He was a Veteran like my husband.

    Hospice spouse

  • I am so grateful that hospice was there for my dad and I. Thank you so much. Keep up the great work.

    Hospice Family Member

  • The hospice team was wonderful and so very kind and patient for and to my mom. Overall, for such a sad experience, they made it bearable. Thank you.

    Hospice Family Member

  • Thank God for hospice. I don’t know what I would have done without them. So considerate, compassionate, and helpful. Truly Angels.

    Hospice Family Member

  • The hospice team was excellent. Every person I encountered was professional, attentive and caring. I was impressed with the whole organization.

  • I was immensely grateful for the kindness and concern demonstrated by all hospice staff. Made this difficult time less difficult.

  • The staff were professional as well as skilled and compassionate.

  • "...to thank you all for your loving kindness and support. We were clearly in over our heads and Mom never would have been able to come home without your assistance."

    Hospice family

The Hospice Benefit Includes:

  • Skilled nursing services
  • Volunteer services
  • Physician services
  • Medications for comfort and symptom control
  • Medical equipment and supplies
  • Skilled therapy (for example, physical or speech therapy)
  • Hospice aide and homemaker services (bathing, housekeeping, time off for caregivers)
  • Social Worker services (finding resources, helping family cope)
  • Spiritual counseling
  • Nutritional counseling
  • Bereavement support for the family

Medicare also provides other unique levels of hospice care, as well:

  • Respite Care: relief for the care giver for up to five days, with care provided in a local Skilled Nursing Facility.
  • Continuous Care: during a patient’s medical crisis, care may be provided for up to 24 hours a day until crisis symptoms are under control.
  • General Inpatient Care

If you qualify for Medicare, hospice care is usually covered 100%. If you have insurance coverage other than Medicare, we would be happy to check your coverage for you.

Hospice Myths & Facts

Many people have misconceptions about what hospice care is and is not. Hospice provides specialized care that addresses the unique needs of a patient facing the end of life. The focus is on caring, not curing.

Hospice professionals are skilled not only in controlling the pain and symptoms related to a life-limiting illness, but also in providing the comfort and support to ensure the highest quality of life possible for both the patient and their family.

Below is a link to our complete list of myths & facts.

Hospice Myths & Facts

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