Our Service Promises to You

When you refer your patients to hospice or palliative care, you’re entrusting their well-being – and your reputation – to another provider. At Center for Hospice Care, we understand your need for prompt, expert and reliable care transitions to someone from your community you can trust.

For more than four decades, we’ve set the standard in northern Indiana for compassionate, clinically sophisticated care, managing complex, high-acuity patients others may decline. Our admission process ensures your patients get the support they need without delay, reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions and improving their quality of life. You’ll gain peace of mind knowing your patients and their families are supported by a robust interdisciplinary team who works seamlessly with your staff, helping you achieve better results for your patients while enabling your team and your practice to function more efficiently.

Our palliative care programs are proven to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions. Studies confirm consistent, positive outcomes resulting from enrollment in palliative care, including increased patient and family satisfaction scores, improved quality of care and reduced spending and utilization in all healthcare settings. In fact, it has been shown to cut inpatient readmissions by 48%, outpatient admissions by 50% and result in up to 36% total cost reduction (source: Center to Advance Palliative Care).

Center for Hospice Care is the only provider in our service area to offer specialized pediatric and perinatal care. Like palliative and hospice care for adults, pediatric hospice and palliative care alleviates pain and other symptoms associated with the patient’s condition. However, unlike adult hospice and palliative care, it can be part of the treatment plan even when curative or life-prolonging care is being sought.

Here are a few other reasons you can trust Center for Hospice Care to earn the privilege of caring for your patients:

• Choose Proven Clinical Excellence: You want the most experienced team supporting your patients. Led by board-certified hospice and palliative physicians and rigorous quality standards, our experienced team exceeds national benchmarks across multiple aspects of quality of care.
• Reach us anytime, day or night: We can be reached 24/7 at 574-243-3100.
• Refer Even High-Acuity Cases: Your patients will receive targeted symptom relief for even the most complex medical conditions. Evidence-based specialty programs, such as HeartWize® and BreatheEazy®, demonstrate measurable improvements in patient comfort, reduced interventions and fewer hospital readmissions – delivering tangible, positive impacts for your patients and your practice.
• Keep Patients Home: Help your patients stay wherever they call home, where they prefer to be, in the comfort of familiar surroundings. Our expert pain and symptom management helps keep them out of the ER and away from needless hospital admissions or readmissions.

Reach us anytime – day or night – at 574.243.3100

Make a Referral

Center for Hospice Care admits referred patients 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Through our centralized referral/admission desk, providers speak directly with those responsible for ensuring the quickest, most efficient admission into our care. To make a referral, call or fax a referral form to:

(574) 243-3125 / (800) 309-8855 Phone
(574) 243-3705 / (866) 277-3705 Fax

You can refer someone for:

• Hospice Care
• Palliative Care
• Chronic Illness Support
• Bereavement Services