Our care
Care that comes to you
More than medical care: a team beside you, wherever you live, working from one plan.
Who this care is for
We care for adults living with a serious, life-limiting illness who have chosen comfort over treatments aimed at cure. Common diagnoses include cancer, heart failure, lung disease, dementia, kidney or liver disease, stroke, and ALS. A physician confirms that the illness is expected to limit life to months rather than years if it runs its natural course. Many families tell us they wish they had called earlier: the sooner we're involved, the more we can do.
You can keep your own doctor. If he or she is agreeable, your doctor continues as your attending physician, and we work alongside them, keep them informed, and carry out the plan together.
Your care team brings
Every person in our care has a written plan, made with the family and revised as things change. Visits increase as needs increase. The people who carry it out:
Registered nurse
Your case manager. Manages pain and symptoms, teaches the family, coordinates everything, and visits more often as needs increase.
Aides, seven days a week
Bathing, dressing, turning, skin care, and the ordinary work of a hard day. Aide visits are scheduled seven days a week, including weekends and holidays, at the frequency your plan calls for.
Social worker
The practical and the unspoken: paperwork, benefits, family conversations, caregiver strain, planning for what comes next.
Chaplain
Spiritual care, if interested, in your tradition. Presence, ritual, reconciliation, and blessing, on your terms.
Physician oversight
Our medical director reviews every plan of care and is available to your attending physician for symptom questions.
Trained volunteers
Companionship, vigil sitting, life-story recording, errands, and a break for the caregiver.
What's included
- Nursing visits and 24/7 nurse access by phone, with in-person visits when needed, nights and weekends included
- Medications for pain and symptom control related to the illness
- Medical equipment and supplies related to the illness (hospital bed, oxygen, wheelchair, incontinence supplies), delivered and explained
- Personal care from aides
- Social work, chaplaincy, and volunteer support
- Caregiver teaching, empowering caregivers
- The Legacy Program, offered to every family
- Short-term respite stays so caregivers can rest
- Grief support for the family for thirteen months after a loss
When more is needed
Most care is routine care at home. When a day calls for more, the plan already has a path.
Routine care at home
The everyday pattern: scheduled visits from the nurse, aide, social worker, and chaplain, with a nurse a phone call away at any hour. This is where most care happens.
Crisis care at home
When symptoms flare and need close attention, such as a pain crisis, severe breathlessness, or agitation, a nurse can stay in the home for extended hours until things settle.
Respite stays
Caregivers wear out. We can arrange a short stay of up to five days in a contracted facility so the family can rest, travel, or simply sleep.
Intensive comfort care in a facility
When symptoms cannot be managed at home, we have a path to a contracted facility for round-the-clock symptom control, with the goal of returning home when it's safe.
Where we care
We come to you: your home, a family member's home, or a care community. We serve Carmel, Westfield, Fishers, Noblesville, Zionsville, Greenfield, Anderson, Pendleton, the north side of Indianapolis, and surrounding communities in Hamilton, Boone, Hancock, Madison, and Marion counties.
Paying for care
Covered services, medications, equipment, and supplies related to the illness are provided at no charge to the patient. We will help you understand how Medicare, Medicaid, or other coverage applies to your situation before anything begins. We provide care without regard to race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, religion, or ability to pay.