Hospice Care Program Sample Clauses
Hospice Care Program. The term "Hospice Care Program" means a coordinated program for meeting the special physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs of dying individuals and their families by providing palliative and supportive medical, nursing and other health services through home, inpatient or outpatient care during the illness and bereavement.
Hospice Care Program. Is a written plan of hospice care which:
a) is ordered and established by and reviewed from time to time by a physician attending the Employee or his/her dependent and appropriate personnel of a hospice care agency; reentry (after a remission period): palliative and supportive care to covered terminally ill Employee or his/her dependents and supportive care to their families; and description of the care to be given to meet those needs. All periods of care in a hospice care program will be considered related and to have occurred in one period of care, unless they are separated by at least three consecutive months.