Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care - St. Louis

Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care - St. Louis is a US-based hospice and palliative care organization located in St. Louis, MO.

Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care is part the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. We provide hospice and palliative care services in 11 states.We not only provide all of the basic hospice and palliative care services required by law; we offer many additional services that standard hospices do not. Here are the benefits and services our patients could receive:1. Involvement of an Evercare Hospice or Palliative Care Physician 2. Unrestricted access to the kind of therapies patients need (including certain life-prolonging therapies, like radiation or chemotherapy) 3. Coordinated care with the patient’s physician 4. Assistance navigating the health care system and Medicare/Medicaid certification 5. 24-hour-a-day on-call support 6. Pain management and control 7. Psychological and spiritual support 8. Family support and education Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care is Medicare-certified, which means that our services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, military health plans and most private insurance companies. Any health care plan member is eligible for Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care. You don’t have to be a member of a UnitedHealth Group or Evercare plan to qualify to receive our services.At Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care, we are committed to providing the best hospice and palliative care experience available. Within our power, we are committed to providing the best hospice and palliative care experience available. That commitment is expressed in our Seven Point Pledge.Evercare™ Hospice & Palliative Care pledges to:1. Admit all hospice-eligible referrals the same day, unless requested otherwise. Patients deserve timely care and action, especially as they approach end-of-life.2. Provide direct, extensive physician involvement in the care of each patient. Experts highly trained in hospice and palliative care are involved and available to make personal visits.3. Achieve acceptable pain control on all patients. No patient should live in pain. That's why we place such an emphasis on delivering pain management in a timely and caring manner.4. Respond to all patient-related calls within 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A patient's condition doesn't take a day off, and neither do we.5. Provide a hospice staff presence at the time of death. We'll be there at this important time, as we have throughout the process, to provide comfort and support.6. Maintain an Unrestricted Options Philosophy regarding patient admissions. We believe in making hospice care available to all those who are eligible. 7. Offer palliative care consults and advanced care planning services. These continuing health care services are important, so we offer expertise in both areas. Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care Goes Above and Beyond.Unlike many hospice programs, Evercare provides the following services:We offer board-certified hospice and palliative care physicians at each of our program locations. Our medical directors regularly see our patients and are available for direct patient care. We have an unrestricted access program, even for those eligible patients pursuing aggressive treatments like radiation or chemotherapy. Because of our physician involvement, we cover a broad spectrum of medications and treatments for symptom relief.

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