Asking is not a commitment
A phone call helps you understand what is happening and what care could look like. There is no pressure and no paperwork required before you ask.
Hospice care
Wherever you call home.
Treasure Coast Hospice brings expert medical care, pain management, emotional support, and spiritual guidance directly to patients and families, wherever home happens to be.
Hospice is not giving up on your loved one.
It is giving them more.
Most families who reach out share that they waited longer than they should have, unsure whether the moment was right and worried that calling hospice meant giving up on someone they loved. Those feelings make sense, and they are exactly why calling sooner matters.
Hospice is a shift in focus from curative treatment toward care that addresses pain, comfort, and quality time with the people who matter most. Calling us starts a conversation, not a commitment.
Earlier support means more support
When hospice begins earlier in an illness, the team has more time to manage pain, support caregivers, reduce emergency visits, and be genuinely present with the patient.
You can still change course
Patients can choose to stop hospice care at any time if their goals or clinical picture change, and care for conditions unrelated to the terminal diagnosis continues.
Hospice care comes to the place the patient calls home.
Most hospice care is provided where the patient already lives. The team brings clinical visits, caregiver teaching, medications related to the hospice diagnosis, medical equipment, emotional support, spiritual care, and 24/7 phone access directly into that setting. When symptoms become too complex to manage safely at home, Treasure Coast Hospice also offers dedicated inpatient units for short-term intensive care close to home.
Private homes
Nurses, aides, social workers, chaplains, counselors, volunteers, and physicians coordinate care in the familiar comfort of home.
Assisted living and nursing facilities
Hospice can support patients in assisted living residences and nursing facilities, working alongside existing facility staff and family caregivers.
Dedicated inpatient units
The Hay-Madeira and Harper Inpatient Units in Stuart and The Lynch Pavilion in Fort Pierce provide short-term care for acute pain or symptom needs that cannot be managed at home.
A team that surrounds the whole person, not just the diagnosis.
Every patient at Treasure Coast Hospice is supported by an interdisciplinary team that meets regularly to review the care plan together, a level of coordination that is genuinely rare in healthcare. Every decision flows from a single question: what matters most to this patient and family right now?
Give Us a CallThe greatest gift we can offer is simply being fully present with people. This is such a vulnerable moment in their life, and we have this unique opportunity to come alongside somebody and take the journey with them.
Shannon Cooper, Chief Clinical Officer
Hospice physicians and medical directors
Guide the plan of care, certify eligibility, manage complex pain and symptom needs, and coordinate with the patient's attending physician.
Registered nurses
Assess changes in condition, manage medications, teach caregivers, coordinate supplies, and respond to urgent symptom concerns around the clock.
Hospice aides
Help with bathing, grooming, dressing, repositioning, and personal comfort at scheduled home visits.
Medical social workers
Support care planning, family communication, access to community resources, emotional stress, and end-of-life logistics.
Chaplains and spiritual counselors
Provide spiritual and emotional support shaped entirely by each person's own beliefs, values, and wishes.
Bereavement counselors
Offer individual counseling, group programs, and family support before and after a loss, including through the Thomas Counseling Center.
Four levels of care meet changing needs.
Hospice support can increase or decrease as symptoms, caregiver capacity, and clinical circumstances change. Treasure Coast Hospice helps families understand each level and when it may apply, often moving between levels as the patient's situation calls for it.
01Routine Home Care
Ongoing care wherever the patient lives.
The hospice team visits regularly to manage symptoms, monitor changes, educate caregivers, coordinate supplies and medications, and support the emotional and spiritual needs of the patient and family.
This is the most common level of hospice care, usually provided in the patient's home, assisted living residence, or nursing facility when symptoms are reasonably controlled.02Continuous Home Care
Intensive short-term support during a symptom crisis.
When a patient experiences an acute medical crisis at home, intensive nursing support can be provided at the bedside to stabilize symptoms and avoid an unnecessary emergency room visit.
Continuous care is short-term, focused on stabilizing an urgent symptom crisis rather than providing routine supervision or caregiver relief.03General Inpatient Care
Temporary inpatient care for symptoms too complex to manage at home.
When severe pain, breathing distress, nausea, agitation, or other complex symptoms cannot be managed at home, inpatient care provides round-the-clock clinical support in one of Treasure Coast Hospice's dedicated units.
General inpatient care is short-term. Once symptoms are stabilized, care returns to the home or residential setting.04Respite Care
Short-term caregiver relief in a Medicare-certified setting.
Respite care allows a patient to stay briefly in a Medicare-certified facility so the primary family caregiver can rest, travel, or recover from the physical and emotional demands of caregiving.
Respite is designed for caregiver relief and is available for up to five consecutive days per benefit period.
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Maryellen Murphy, Marketing Manager, TCHPatient over profit. Always.
Who qualifies, and how to begin.
Hospice is generally appropriate when a serious illness is no longer responding to curative treatment and a physician estimates life expectancy at six months or less. If you are unsure whether your loved one qualifies, our team can help you find out. No referral or paperwork is needed before you call, and care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans.
Call for guidance
Call any time to describe what is happening and ask questions about symptoms, eligibility, caregiving stress, or care options.
Talk through what is changing
A clinical team member reviews the situation and helps determine whether a hospice evaluation may be appropriate.
Confirm eligibility
The hospice medical director and attending physician, when available, certify eligibility using clinical judgment.
Begin the hospice benefit
The patient or authorized representative chooses hospice care and receives guidance on benefit details, coverage, and next steps.
Put support in place
The team coordinates medications, equipment, supplies, visits, caregiver teaching, and 24/7 support around the care plan.
More than what Medicare covers.
Through the Treasure Coast Hospice Foundation, we offer programs that go beyond the standard hospice benefit to support the patient and family in ways most for-profit hospices simply do not. These are not add-ons. They are part of how we care.
Complementary Therapies
Music therapy, massage therapy, virtual reality experiences, legacy work, and the Treasured Pets program bring comfort, expression, and peace of mind to patients and families during care.
Explore complementary therapiesGrief Support
Grief support through the Thomas Counseling Center is available to families before and after a loss, through individual counseling, support groups, and community programs open to anyone navigating grief.
Explore grief supportVeterans Program
Treasure Coast Hospice provides veteran-centered recognition, veteran-to-veteran visits, and care that acknowledges the unique experiences many veterans carry.
Explore veterans care
We are here whenever you are ready.
Our compassionate care team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You do not have to have all the answers before you call.