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Originally Posted by Rose76
What's different about our situation is that I'm a retired nurse and he gets better care at home from me than anywhere else. There is no actual hospice facility . . . just regular nursing homes.
The good news is that he's made quite a good recovery from the pneumonia. Hospice care could not have accomplished this.
I thank you all for your thoughtful responses above. I wrote a long post to respond, but somehow I lost it.
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——I don’t want people to think patients can’t recover in hospice-that just isn’t true. My mom really bounced back In a private hospice. However, My partner is a vet so I’m so sorry to have to say this:
While I don’t know any particular hospice facility, he didn’t do well under va care in LA. I am talking about outpatient care, not hospital or hospice. I had to switch him over to private care.
So. I guess everything depends on what the patients goals are.