Hospice care referrals in Southern California
When someone you love needs hospice, you should not have to call ten agencies from a hospital hallway. Tell us about them once. We match your family with a licensed hospice that fits their care needs, their insurance and their neighborhood — in most cases the same day.
Every match checks three things
Answered in minutes, not voicemail tomorrow
Licensed agencies in good standing, nothing else
You decide. We explain the options; the choice stays yours
Who we help
Families, the clinicians discharging a patient, and the facilities caring for residents all need the same thing: the right hospice, quickly, without a week of phone tag.
Families
We walk you through what the Medicare hospice benefit covers, what to ask an agency, and what happens on the first visit. Then we connect you with one that can start.
Discharge planners & physicians
Send the face sheet and the order. We confirm an agency that has accepted the patient, can take their payer, and can do the admission visit on your timeline.
Facilities
Skilled nursing, assisted living and residential board & care homes: we match residents with hospices that already visit your building and work well with your staff.
How it works
A care coordinator picks up — not a call center. Tell us who needs care, where they are today, and what the doctor has said. Five minutes is usually enough.
We check which licensed hospices serve their address, accept their coverage and can meet their needs — oxygen, wound care, dementia, a language at the bedside — and we confirm who can admit.
The agency calls you to set the admission visit. A hospice nurse comes to the home or facility, and we check back with you afterwards to make sure it is the right fit.
Once a physician has ordered hospice, admission can often begin within hours.
Our provider network
We refer only to hospices that are licensed by the California Department of Public Health and certified by Medicare, and we keep track of which ones are answering, admitting and visiting where.
Licensed & Medicare-certifiedEvery agency, every time
Wherever they liveHome, hospital, assisted living, nursing home, board & care
Language & cultureAgencies with staff who speak your family’s language
Counties we serve
Rapid response
Hospital and skilled-nursing teams: one call gets a coordinator working on your patient while you finish the paperwork. We confirm the accepting agency back to you by phone.
Helpful to have ready
Missing something? Call anyway. We can start with a name and a phone number.
What families ask
Short, honest answers. If yours is not here, call — asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Ask us directlySomeone with Medicare Part A whose doctor and the hospice medical director certify that, if the illness runs its normal course, life expectancy is six months or less — and who chooses comfort-focused care instead of treatment to cure that illness. It is not a countdown: people who live longer can be recertified and keep receiving care.
For people on Medicare, hospice care itself costs nothing. There can be a copay of up to $5 for each prescription for pain and symptom relief, and a small coinsurance on the Medicare-approved amount for short inpatient respite stays. Medicare does not pay room and board in a nursing home or assisted living. Medi-Cal and most private plans also cover hospice. Our referral service is free to families.
Once a physician has ordered hospice, many agencies can do the admission visit the same day or the next morning. Calling early matters: the extra days give time for equipment, medications and support to be in place before a crisis, not after one.
Yes. Most hospice care happens wherever the person already lives — a private home, a family member’s home, assisted living, a residential board & care, or a skilled nursing facility. The team comes to them: nurse, aide, social worker, chaplain and volunteers.
Your loved one can keep their own doctor as the attending physician. They can also stop hospice at any time and return to regular Medicare coverage, or switch to a different hospice agency once per benefit period. Choosing hospice is a decision about comfort, not a door that locks.
You can call an agency directly. What we add is the comparison: which agencies actually serve your address, take your coverage, have capacity this week and can meet specific needs. That is a dozen phone calls you do not have to make while you are trying to be at the bedside.
Talk to a care coordinator
Seven days a week. If it is late and you reach voicemail, leave a number — we call back first thing, and urgent hospital discharges are returned the same evening.