Community Healthcare of Texas

Community Hospice of Texas serves to:

• Prepare North Central Texas families for serious illness and life's final chapter with planning resources that help patients identify and share their priorities for their care.

• Care for patients and families facing serious illness or the end of life. Our care is provided by an interdisciplinary team that includes specialists in spiritual care, bereavement support, and social services as well as medicine and nursing. Care is designed to provide comfort and quality of life for all touched by serious illness or closing chapter of a life.

• Comfort friends and family living with loss through Grief Care programs that meet individuals and families where they are. Community Hospice of Texas Grief Care is available to any member of the community who needs help living with loss, whether or not we cared for their loved one.

Every life story has an ending. Community Hospice of Texas cares in this time of need with specialized medicine, spiritual and bereavement care, and support that comforts patients and strengthens families.

Its care benefits all touched by serious illness and the end of life. Strategies and benefits include:

• Care for all of you. Community Hospice of Texas care recognizes that serious or life-limiting illness affects the whole person, not just the body, and the whole family. That is why our interdisciplinary teams care for the whole family and include specialists in spiritual care, bereavement support, and psychosocial services as well as medicine and nursing.

• Quality of life: 80% of Americans say they want to spend their final days at home, free of pain, surrounded by family and all they love. Community Hospice of Texas care makes this possible and supports better quality of life. Surprisingly, research also shows some patients live longer in hospice and palliative care than those who continue curative or intensive care.

• Peace: Community Hospice of Texas provides family support during a serious illness and bereavement care after a loved one’s passing. Families say they feel better able to cope and are drawn closer with the help of hospice and palliative care teams.

• Affordability: Hospice is covered by most insurance and is a fraction of the cost of intensive care. For people who are uninsured or in financial need, Community Hospice of Texas provides more than $1 million in Community Care, or uncompensated care, annually. As the largest not-for-profit provider of hospice and palliative care in Texas, we feel a duty to care, regardless of ability to pay.

Community Hospice of offers adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care to patients and their families through nine locations—including three inpatient units or hospice houses—serving 25 North Central Texas counties.

We care for more than 4,000 unduplicated patients and their families annually with services including:
• Four levels of Adult Hospice Care--Home hospice care, continuous care, inpatient care and respite care are coordinated by the care team, based on the patient’s and family’s needs. Most patients prefer routine home care, but higher levels of care are available when needed to manage symptoms or provide family caregivers needed rest.
• Community Care--Because everyone deserves the comfort of compassionate care at the end of life, the Community Care program provides more than $1 million in uncompensated nursing care, family support, counseling, supplies and equipment, medication and bereavement services, annually to patients who are uninsured or in financial need.
• Little Doves Perinatal and Pediatric Hospice --In the difficult days that follow a child's terminal diagnosis, Little Doves Pediatric Hospice teams give comfort and make the days count for young patients and their families. These extraordinary professionals care for pediatric patients from the prenatal period to early adulthood, half of them under the age of five, who are challenged in life by cancer, neurological disorders, diseases of the heart and lungs, neonatal diseases and congenital abnormalities. Little Doves Pediatric Hospice team members provide expert medical care and support for all needs of the patient and family, including Child Life Services that prepare young patients and/or other children for what lies ahead or comfort children and families in bereavement. Pediatric hospice encompasses all four levels of hospice service: home hospice care, continuous care, inpatient care and respite care.
• Grief Care--Grief Care, a specially designed bereavement program, provides support for all members of the family, from a loved one’s hospice care admission through at least 13 months after the patient's death. Grief Care also is offered free of charge to anyone in the community who needs help living with loss.
• Community-based Palliative Care --The care of just five percent of Americans, individuals with expensive chronic conditions, accounts for nearly half of all U.S. health care expenditures. Community-based palliative care is ideal for patients like these and is proven to reduce symptom crises and other factors that contribute to avoidable hospital readmissions; increase patient and family satisfaction; and contain costs of care for patients with serious, chronic illness.

Community Hospice of Texas offers adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care to patients and their families through nine locations—including three inpatient units or hospice houses—serving 25 North Central Texas counties.

We care for more than 4,000 unduplicated patients and their families annually with services including:
• Four levels of Adult Hospice Care--Home hospice care, continuous care, inpatient care and respite care are coordinated by the care team, based on the patient’s and family’s needs. Most patients prefer routine home care, but higher levels of care are available when needed to manage symptoms or provide family caregivers needed rest.
• Community Care--Because everyone deserves the comfort of compassionate care at the end of life, the Community Care program provides more than $1 million in uncompensated nursing care, family support, counseling, supplies and equipment, medication and bereavement services, annually to patients who are uninsured or in financial need.
• Little Doves Perinatal and Pediatric Hospice --In the difficult days that follow a child's terminal diagnosis, Little Doves Pediatric Hospice teams give comfort and make the days count for young patients and their families. Pediatric hospice encompasses all four levels of hospice service: home hospice care, continuous care, inpatient care and respite care.
• Grief Care--Grief Care, a specially designed bereavement program, provides support for all members of the family, from a loved one’s hospice care admission through at least 13 months after the patient's death. Grief Care also is offered free of charge to anyone in the community who needs help living with loss.
• Community-based Palliative Care --The care of just five percent of Americans, individuals with expensive chronic conditions, accounts for nearly half of all U.S. health care expenditures. Community-based palliative care is ideal for patients like these and is proven to reduce symptom crises and other factors that contribute to avoidable hospital readmissions; increase patient and family satisfaction; and contain costs of care for patients with serious, chronic illness.
• Volunteer Services--More than 300 volunteers, many of them grateful members of our patients’ families, give more than 18,000 hours of service annually to support direct patient services, Grief Care and more.
• What’s Your Plan? Advance Care Planning--This community resource helps individuals and families understand and discuss, then document decisions and values that can guide future healthcare choices.
• We Honor Veterans --As a Level 4 partner in We Honor Veterans, Community Hospice of Texas trains staff and veteran volunteers to support the unique physical, emotional and spiritual needs of veterans at the end of life.