Services for Hospice
Extend Your Team, Expand Your Impact, Improve Family Satisfaction.
Preparing Patients for Hospice - Earlier and with Confidence
Too often, patients enter hospice late—missing the opportunity to receive comfort and support that could have improved their final months. Fear, misinformation, and uncertainty about what hospice is (and isn’t) can delay this decision.
At Present for You, our serious illness companions and end-of-life doulas can begin supporting patients and families well before they need hospice. We create a safe space to talk openly about the hospice model, what services are available, and how it can be tailored to their needs and values. These early conversations ease anxiety, build trust, and often lead to timely enrollment, which research shows can even extend life and improve quality of living.
Collaborative Support for Hospice Teams
Our role is not to replace hospice care—it’s to strengthen it. By working alongside your team, we help:
- Monitor changes in a patient’s condition between clinical visits.
- Provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to patients and families.
- Free up your staff’s time by covering non-medical needs.
Demystifying Hospice for Families
- Clarifying the Medicare Hospice Benefit so families understand what’s covered and how to access it.
- Fact-checking myths that cause hesitation or fear.
- Facilitating difficult conversations among patients, families, and care teams.
- Planning ahead so decisions are made thoughtfully, not in crisis.
Prolonging Better Life
Studies have shown that people opting for earlier hospice actually live longer than those who enter in crisis.
Medicare Hospice Knowledge
We understand the Medicare Hospice Benefit and know how to discuss it. These conversations facilitate intake and admission.
How Present for You Doulas Support
Your Patients and Their Families
- Answering questions and researching care options.
- Offering emotional support during challenging discussions and decisions.
- Communicating patients’ wishes clearly, ensuring dignity and autonomy.
- Stepping in when family or caregivers are unavailable.
- Helping reduce stress by handling practical, non-medical needs.
Community Care Platform for Measurable Outcomes
Our secure platform:
- Records visits, tracks progress, and documents outcomes.
- Strengthens community connections, especially with underserved groups such as people of color, LGBTQI+ individuals, and others who may be wary of hospice.
- Helps identify concerns early, so they can be addressed before they affect patient experience or CAHPS® scores.
Better Community Connections
People of color, LGBTQI+ individuals, and other minority groups are underserved by hospice. Our community care platform can improve trust of hospice and help make care more appropriate and personalized by drawing on authentic community.
Improving Measured Outcomes After Death
We combine the power of trusted relationships with the collection of essential information through our platform. This approach enhances patient-centered care by enabling the swift detection of addressable issues before a patient dies and before CAHPS® data are collected.
FAQs
Answers to common questions about Present for You’s hospice collaborations.
Yes. Present for You is one of the few doula organizations with established, long-term hospice contracts. We have demonstrated measurable value through actionable data and client insights. Our model allows us to deploy multiple doulas who offer greater flexibility—often at lower cost—than hiring a single hospice aide.
Our preferred arrangement is a predictable, low-cost monthly fee tied to your average daily census, covering a set number of doula visits each month. We are open to alternative payment models. In certain regulatory contexts, we can also join the interdisciplinary team directly for patients who may benefit from spiritual counseling, provided by doulas with the appropriate qualifications.
All Present for You doulas undergo industry-standard background checks. In addition to our in-house serious illness companion training, we require certification from a reputable doula education organization—typically the University of Vermont or the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA). We also maintain partnerships with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) for ongoing palliative education. We are happy to meet your organization’s own screening and onboarding requirements.
Present for You delivers a higher standard of reliability, timeliness, and availability. Our doulas receive extensive training, participate in data collection, and maintain strong connections to community resources. When doulas rotate, they share institutional knowledge to ensure continuity of care. If a family is not a good fit with a particular doula, we can transition quickly to another team member. Our network also allows us to connect families with trusted third-party services outside hospice’s direct scope.
Staffing levels are based on your average daily census and contract terms. In new markets, we may need time to recruit and train the right team; during that period, we can supplement with virtual care. Once fully staffed, we can respond quickly to changing patient and family needs.