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After receiving a life-limiting diagnosis for which a cure is not anticipated, maintaining positivity and purpose is essential. A trusted hospice team surrounds you with the physical, emotional and spiritual support your family needs to find comfort and remain focused on making memories, spending time together and all that matters most.

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Our family has utilized Salus Homecare for the past 4 plus years. My initial contact was with a Salus Case Manager. She was so knowledgeable, kind and compassionate. The exact type of person I needed when navigating care for our 92 year old mom. Our caregiver went above and beyond not only to assist our mom but to help me with things I needed done in the home. I highly recommended Salus for your homecare needs.

Ruth L. September 1, 2024

Great services! Great staff! Our caregiver and case manager were both so great to work with!

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A Life-Limiting Diagnosis Has Me Feeling Anxious and Afraid

When faced with a life-limiting condition for which a cure is not anticipated, it’s common to feel anxious and afraid. Family and friends play an important role in helping you cope and providing support, but they also may be experiencing their own struggles and uncertainties. Having the right team of professionals by your side makes managing pain easier and helps you to feel more confident pondering questions, making amends with loved ones and contemplating what it means to face unique challenges at the end of life. Ultimately, this empowers you to enjoy a higher quality of life and spend more time focusing on family, friends and everything that you love most.

Salus Hospice provides team-oriented, holistic support after a life-limiting diagnosis and when you have a life expectancy of six months or less. It neither hastens nor postpones death and is always centered around compassion and helping you feel dignified in making the choices that are right for you. Our goal is to minimize pain and discomfort while offering essential emotional and spiritual care expressly tailored to your needs and goals. Support is also provided to your loved ones, helping your family to worry less and you to live fully and comfortably for whatever time you have left.

How Salus Integrated Services Can Help You Overcome a Serious Medical Illness

Home Care

Life's challenges can make it difficult to remain safe at home as you age in place. Salus Homecare of Orange County is here to help. Our professional caregivers provide personalized non-medical in home care that helps clients overcome challenges and reach their goals. Our caregivers empower clients to remain secure, comfortable and healthy while enjoying a higher quality of life every day. Services include support with ADLs, IADLs and respite care. If you or a loved one are in need of support, click the link below and contact us to learn more.

What are the typical goals of care for this type of service?: To remain safe and comfortable in your own home or place of choice in times of recuperation or during the normal aging process
Why choose this type of care?: Maintain dignity and independence allowing you to age safely in the comfort of home. May also be helpful to assist with care needs following surgery or hospitalization.
What kind of services are available?: Assistance with activities of daily living can include bathing, grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders. Also light housekeeping and other requested services.
Who pays for this service?: Private pay; for those that have long term care insurance their policy may pay a good portion of the costs; for those qualifying war-time veterans (or spouse) the VA covers a small portion.
How often does the care happen?: As often as you would like. Can be hourly for brief periods (min of 4 hrs) or up to 24hrs/day 7 days/wk
Who is involved in the delivery of care?: A case manager and a caregiver.
Who determines what care is delivered?: The case manager and family make this decision together
Is a physician order required?: No
Is anything else required?: An in-home assessment performed by the case manager to determine the plan of care.
If equipment is needed (i.e. hospital bed, walker) who pays for that?: The majority of the time this will be the responsibility of the patient/family
How do I get started?: Give Salus a call. We will schedule a case manager to visit at no cost.
How long does the service last?: As long as needed and desired by the client
Why choose Salus?: Salus offers the patient and family with the most expert and nurturing care during all phases of a patient's healthcare journey. At Salus we are "Always There" and provide the patient and family with choices across the continuum of care.

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Home Health

There are many challenges in life that can make it difficult to remain independent and function in a way that promotes health and longevity. When those challenges are difficult to manage alone, Salus Homecare of Orange County is here to help. Our professional caregivers provide customized non-medical care in the home environment. With our assistance, our clients often state they are happier, healthier and enjoying life more. If you need help with ADLs, IADLs, companionship for supervision for a loved one, click the link below to learn more.

What are the typical goals of care for this type of service?: To regain prior level of function/health. Promote the patient's ability to move, reduce pain, restore function and prevent disability.
Why choose this type of care?: To regain health and to resume the previous level of function and independence.
What kind of services are available?: Multidisciplinary team approach. Patient's physician arranges Medical Equipment and Medications; must be authorized by insurance.
Who pays for this service?: Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial Insurance or by the patient directly; May have co-pays according to plan.
How often does the care happen?: Care is determined by the doctor but is typically comprised of intermittent visits by nursing and therapy over the course of 30-60 days according to an individualized plan
Who is involved in the delivery of care?: Home Health services are ordered by a physician and can include nursing, physical, occupational or speech therapy, medical social services, home health aide and registered dietician
Who determines what care is delivered?: The patients ordering physician determines the disciplines necessary to meet the patients' needs
Is a physician order required?: Yes
Is anything else required?: Patient must meet home-bound requirements
If equipment is needed (i.e. hospital bed, walker) who pays for that?: Depends on eligibility
How do I get started?: Discuss desire for care with your physician; Give Salus a call
How long does the service last?: As long as the patient has the potential for improvement with restorative treatment. Must meet insurance eligibility guidelines.
Why choose Salus?: Salus offers the patient and family with the most expert and nurturing care during all phases of a patient's healthcare journey. At Salus we are "Always There" and provide the patient and family with choices across the continuum of care.

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Hospice

A terminal diagnosis is often frightening and brings with it a wide range of emotions from anger to relief. At this time in life, it is more important than ever to receive compassionate hospice care and surround yourself with the people and things that you love most. As part of your support network, Salus Homecare of Orange County’s hospice provides spiritual, emotional and physical assistance that empowers you to live each day to the fullest. With the help of our interdisciplinary care team, you can experience less pain and more opportunities to realize your end of life goals.

What are the typical goals of care for this type of service?: Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. Comfort and symptom management; Maintain comfort and quality of life during the end stages of a serious illness to which the doctor does not expect a cure; care for physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs. Reduces suffering. Improve the quality of life for both the patient and family.
Why choose this type of care?: To stay in the comfort of your own home, avoid hospitalization, during your final months, weeks and days of life. To forego curative treatments, rather focus your remaining time left on things that matter most. There is no homebound requirement.
What kind of services are available?: An interdisciplinary team provides holistic care. Includes coverage for medications related to management of the end stage disease, Medical Equipment and Nursing Supplies (i.e Incontinence, Gloves, Woundcare dressings).
What insurance plans cover hospice care?: Medicare (Part A) and Medicaid 100% covered; Most private insurances also have coverage, including VA benefit
How often does the care happen?: Hospice support is available 24/7 although the frequency of intermittent visits can vary based on the patients individual care needs and can change as the patients' needs change
Who is involved in the delivery of care?: Hospice has an Interdisciplinary approach to care, the hospice team includes a doctor, nurse, social worker, spiritual care coordinator, home health aide, and volunteers
Who determines what care is delivered?: The hospice team works together with each patient and their family/caregivers to determine the services they would like to receive while under Hospice care. Collaborates with the physician for updates and orders.
Is a physician order required?: Yes
Is anything else required?: Patient must have a terminal prognosis of 6 months or less certified by two physicians
If equipment is needed (i.e. hospital bed, walker) who pays for that?: Medical equipment is typically included in your hospice care benefits through the VA, Medicare and private insurance plans. We will help you to determine the right equipment and assist with ordering it and ensuring it is delivered to your home.
Will hospice cure my disease?: No, the intent of hospice care is to provide relief from pain and support in the end stages of life. The program neither hastens nor prolongs life but it does help to improve quality of life for the patients and their family members.
Who is hospice care right for?: Hospice is designed for patients during the last 6 months of life if the disease runs it's usual course. Should the patient's condition improve, the hospice team will assist with discharge planning from hospice to other healthcare options.
How do I get started?: Discuss your desire for care with your physician and give Salus a call. We will schedule an assessment and work with your physician to determine eligibility for care.

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Palliative Care

A diagnosis of an illness that could alter one's life can make it challenging to maintain your quality of life while pursuing curative options and coping with the temporary and permanent changes that come with the disease. During this time, having the right balance of physical and emotional support empowers you to live each day to the fullest and may even improve your prognosis. Salus Palliative Care of Orange County provides this personalized support, right at home. Our interdisciplinary team helps you to experience less pain and discomfort and more opportunities to realize your goals while maintaining your independence.

What are the typical goals of care for this type of service?: Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. Comfort and symptom management; Maintain comfort and quality of life during the end stages of a serious illness to which the doctor does not expect a cure; care for physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs. Reduces suffering. Improve the quality of life for both the patient and family.
Why choose this type of care?: May receive curative treatments between the home and hospital during the last months, weeks and days of life. Medicare requires the patient must be homebound.
What kind of services are available?: Interdisciplinary team provides holistic care. Patient's physician arranges Medical Equipment and Medications; must be authorized by insurance.
Who pays for this service?: Medicare (Part A) and Medicaid with no co-pay;Most private insurances also have coverage. May have co-pays according to plan.
How often does the care happen?: Intermittent visits by the Palliative Care Team according to an individualized plan.
Who is involved in the delivery of care?: Palliative care is ordered by the patients physician and may include a RN or Nurse Practitioner, medical social services and a consultation with spiritual care.
Who determines what care is delivered?: Palliative Care Team, led by a Nurse Practitioner, confers with the patient's physician in developing a unique plan to meet the needs of the patient and family. Includes Advanced Care Planning discussion on end of life goals.
Is a physician order required?: Yes
Is anything else required?: Patient must meet home-bound requirements.
If equipment is needed (i.e. hospital bed, walker) who pays for that?: Depends on eligibility
How do I get started?: Discuss desire for care with your physician; Give Salus a call
How long does the service last?: As long as patient meets eligibility guidelines for Home Health care. As condition declines, many patients choose Salus Hospice to best meet their holistic needs, including experienced end of life care staff.
Why choose Salus?: Salus offers the patient and family with the most expert and nurturing care during all phases of a patient's healthcare journey. At Salus we are "Always There" and provide the patient and family with choices across the continuum of care.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Not taking your medications as prescribed could lead to your disease getting worse. Additionally, it increases your risks of unpleasant and dangerous side effects as well as the potential for increased or ill-managed pain, rehospitalizations, slips and falls and even death. For seniors, mismanagement of medications increases the risk of hospital admissions or readmissions and reduces the likelihood of long term independence and aging in place.

While many patients benefit from home health services when it comes to managing new or temporary medications appropriately, there are other strategies that can also work. They include asking a professional caregiver, friend or loved one to help with medication reminders, properly labeling your pill bottles and using a pill dispenser, and taking advantage of apps or phone reminders to remember to take medications on time. A home health nurse can help you to implement a strategy that works long term as part of your plan of care.

While a Salus home health nurse can administer medications, this is not necessarily how medication management is best handled. Some patients prefer to receive instruction on how to take all their medications and assistance in filling pill boxes or preparing daily doses. Some patients also begin with their nurse administering medications and later transition to a more independent system. You will be involved in creating the right plan of care for your specific needs.

An in home aide cannot administer medications. In home care is an appropriate service for a senior who simply needs medication reminders but are still capable of self-administering all of their medications. Medication administration is a skilled service and therefore, handled under in home health care.

Yes, in some cases Medicare will cover medication management services. This is typically true when they are classified as a “skilled need” by your physician and necessary on a more short term basis. Our case managers can assist you in determining if this is a covered expense based on your doctor’s orders and specific needs.

Yes, our nursing staff is fully trained to provide support with infused medications. We will simply need a doctor’s orders for the medication, and then it can be added to your plan of care. We will provide support in administering the medication, monitoring doses and providing information to your physician that can be helpful in determining any need for changes to your dosage.

For most patients, medication management is part of a coordinated and thorough plan of care that addresses all skilled home health and non-skilled home care needs. Therefore, it would be the exception to the rule for a client to receive services strictly to help them better manage their medications.

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Recently Become Aware of a Life-Limiting Illness

A Life-Limiting Diagnosis Has Me Feeling Anxious and Afraid

How Salus Integrated Services Can Help You Overcome a Serious Medical Illness

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