Hoffmann uses aggressive treatment for pain and symptom management while keeping the patient as alert as possible. Hospice care neither prolongs nor hastens death, but provides specialized support during the transition from this life to the next.

Our patients are assigned their own personal care teams and offered the following services:

Core Services

 Hoffmann also offers a number of unique supplemental services

• Pain and symptom control

• Care for patients and their families

• Care for adults, children and infants

• Social services

• Spiritual care

• Home health aides 

• Trained volunteers 

• Bereavement services 

• Medical equipment and medication 

• Twenty-four hour access to on-call hospice nurses 

 Hoffmann's weekly grief support group meetings are free of charge and open to the public.

Patients of for-profit hospices receive significantly fewer non-core services - medical equipment and supplies, medications, personal care and respite care - than patients of non-profit hospices.

Source: California Healthcare Foundation