Inpatient Care

Offering the area's only dedicated, in-patient hospice suites at Logansport Memorial Hospital

What are inpatient hospice services?

When a cure is not possible, what more can be done for those with a life limiting illness? The end of life can be painful, confusing and full of hard choices for both the dying and their loved ones, or it can be lived painlessly and with a sense of purpose and dignity. Sometimes, due to a need for pain control or chronic symptom management that cannot feasibly be provided in other settings, an inpatient environment may best serve an individual. Within that environment medications can be better monitored and adjusted, observation can be more consistent and treatments can be better determined. Hope Hospice and Logansport Memorial Hospital are there to provide our patients with such care.

About our inpatient hospice services

We have 3, private rooms located on the medical-surgical floor
Family accommodations including kitchenette, comfortable furnishings, and the use of private restroom facilities all with the goal of caring for the family, as well as the patient
Rooms are located to allow for quiet surroundings
Staffed entirely by Registered Nurses
Provides you with experts in both acute care and experts in comfort care
Maintain an established plan of care for hospice services
Provides for increased communication between Hope Hospice and Logansport Memorial Hospital
Chaplain services are available 24 hours a day

Reasons for inpatient services

Pain control or acute and chronic symptom management, which cannot be provided in other settings
Medications adjustment
Observation
Stabilizing treatment

Who qualifies for inpatient hospice?

Patient is actively dying and has acute care needs
Patient is a Hope Hospice patient with inpatient needs
Patient is discharged from an out of area hospital
Patient is in the Emergency Room, does not meet criteria for hospital admission and qualifies for hospice
Patient needs medical adjustment, observation or stabilizing treatment