Home Health & Hospice

Overview

Home health care is curative, intended to help patients recover from injury or illness, or progress toward improved functionality. Hospice provides comfort care to a patient with advanced illness when curative medical treatments are no longer effective or preferred. 

Home health care provides services that are brought to patients who require intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, or continued occupational services, as prescribed by their doctor. The patient's progress must be documented. Hospice care is comfort care for patients with a prognosis of six months or less if their disease runs its natural course, as certified by a physician. There are approximately 380 home health & hospice centers within Los Angeles County.