Hospice Eligibility
HOSPICE DIAGNOSES
- Metastatic Malignancies
- End Stage Dementia
- End Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
- End Stage Cardiovascular Disease
- End Stage Congestive Heart Failure
- End Stage Chronic Obstructive
- Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- End Stage Cerebrovascular Disease (CVA)
- End Stage Renal Disease
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Debility Unspecified
- Multi-System Failure
COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS CRITERIA
- Progressive decline in clinical and functional status
- Recurrent or intractable serious infection (pneumonia, sepsis, pyelonephritis)
- Disabling dyspnea at rest
- Frequent hospitalizations/multiple ER visits
- Increased uncontrolled pain
- Oxygen dependent
- Unintentional weight loss of 10% over past 6 months
- Uncontrolled nausea, vomiting and diarrhea
- Intractable cough
- Decline in systolic blood pressure to below 90, or postural hypotension
- Edema
- Ascites
- Pleural / pericardial effusion
- Weakness; fatigue
- Life-limiting illness
(prognoses of 6 months or less if disease runs it’s normal course and palliative care has been chosen by patient/and or family)
