Care & services
How we care
Every level of care we offer, what it includes and who it is for.
Care & services
The care we bring home
Covered by the Medicare hospice benefit, Oklahoma SoonerCare and most private insurance for the illness hospice is treating. Ask our business office about anything else.
At the bedside
For a person whose doctor expects the illness to run its course in about six months or less.
- Medicare
Nurse case manager
One registered nurse who visits on a schedule, manages pain and symptoms, and gives you her direct line.
- Medicare
Hospice aide visits
Bathing, shaving, mouth care and clean sheets, two to five times a week.
- 24/7
Night and weekend nurse
A Cross Timbers nurse answers and drives out when needed, holidays included.
- Medicare
Hospice medical director
A physician who reviews every plan and makes house calls when a symptom is stubborn.
- Delivered
Comfort medications
Medicines for the hospice diagnosis, delivered from a pharmacy in Ardmore.
- Delivered
Medical equipment
Hospital bed, wheelchair, oxygen and bedside commode, set up in the room you choose.
- Medicare
Continuous care in a crisis
Nursing at the bedside for hours at a time when symptoms are hard to control.
Heart, home and paperwork
- Included
Medical social worker
Advance directives, DNR forms, SoonerCare questions and funeral arrangements.
- Included
Chaplain care
Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Pentecostal or none. We call your own minister if you'd like.
- Included
Veteran recognition
A pinning ceremony at home, help with VA burial benefits and a flag for the family.
- Free
Volunteer sitters
Neighbors trained to sit with your loved one so you can rest or run to town.
- Up to 5 days
Respite stays
A short stay in a contracted nursing home so the family caregiver can sleep.
- Included
Caregiver teaching
How to turn, bathe and give medicines safely, shown in your house, at your pace.
Afterward
- 13 months
Grief support
Calls, letters and visits, and a grief group that meets Monday evenings on Main Street.
- Every November
Memorial service
Names read aloud, candles and a potluck in our family room.
You don't have to decide today.
Call and ask anything. A hospice nurse will answer, and nobody will rush you.