Advocare Hospice

Advocare Hospice, Inc. is a provider of person-centered hospice care in Garden Grove, California for terminally ill patients aged 18 to 65 and above. We were established to meet the demand for dependable sustained care and support for families with loved ones facing life-limiting conditions.

Advocare Hospice, Inc. provides an individualized program of physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical care for people in the last phases of a life-limiting illness, with an emphasis on control of pain and other symptoms.

The program is reflective of a spirit and idea of caring that emphasizes comfort and dignity for the dying, making it possible for them to remain independent for as long as possible, in familiar surroundings.

1. To provide a program of care that acknowledges death as a normal event
2. To provide direct patient care in the home and family/caregiver support in a coordinated manner with an interdisciplinary program using existing resources and avoiding duplication of services
3. To offer short-term in-patient care when the patient’s pain and symptoms must be closely monitored in order to be controlled, or when the family/caregiver needs a rest from the tedium and stress involved in caring for the patient
4. To maintain a commitment to realistic, cost-effective management, utilizing all available mechanisms for payment, to retain management responsibility for the patient’s care in the utilization of direct and indirect services
5. To make hospice and the hospice philosophy an accepted part of the healthcare system and to increase awareness concerning the needs of the dying
6. To provide a continuum of care which recognizes and responds to the physical, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs of the patient and family/caregiver