Our Services
“Our Patients are our family."
Holy Savior Hospice & Palliative Care offers you exactly the right expertise to meet your health care needs, so you can enjoy everyday living. We help you cope with medical, physical, emotional and spiritual issues that serious illness brings.
When a decision has been reached to receive palliative or hospice care...
We listen to the challenges you face and care about how you want to be treated. Our caring team works together with our patients and their family to create a customized care plan. Our personalized approach supports the specific wishes of the patient and Holy Savior Hospice utilizes our resources to fulfill these wishes. Our team provides physical care, counseling, spiritual support, medication, medical equipment and supplies needed to address the unique needs of our patient’s illness and related conditions.
Our Services Include:
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Personal care such as bathing and dressing
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Pain and symptom relief associated with their life-limiting illness
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Medication supervision
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Vital sign monitoring
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Oxygen assistance
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Continence care
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Catheter assistance
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Grief and loss counseling
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Dietary counseling
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Spiritual support
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Social worker support
Hospice or Palliative:
What's the Difference?
Both our palliative care and hospice care programs provide comfort to the patient and relief for caregivers. Palliative Care can begin at diagnosis and occur at the same time as treatment. Hospice care begins after treatment of the disease has ceased and when it is established that curative treatments are no longer an option.
What is Right for You: Palliative or Hospice Care?
The goals, eligibility, and services provided for hospice and palliative care vary. Discover the right treatment option for you or your loved one with our quick ten question evaluation.
Self-Assessment
Palliative Care
Definition: Palliative care is compassionate, comfort care that provides relief from the symptoms and physical and mental stress of a serious or life-limiting illness. Palliative care can start at diagnosis, during curative treatment and follow-up, or at the end of life.
The palliative care team works in partnership with your own doctor to provide an extra layer of support for you and your family.
If you’re a patient, our experienced team improves how you feel, both physically and emotionally. The team at Holy Savior Palliative Care is deeply committed and highly skilled at providing care and other resources you require throughout the course of a serious illness.
If you’re a caregiver, we provide expert support as you care for your loved one. You can get education and coaching to be a more confident caregiver, as well as emotional and spiritual support to sustain you during the demands of caring.
Eligibility: Palliative care can start at the discretion of the physician and patient at any time, at any stage of illness, terminal or not.
Cost: Savior Hospice has one of the only licensed Palliative Medicare Programs Texas, meaning there is no out-of-pocket cost to you. Read more about who pays for palliative care here.
When you or a loved one is seriously ill, you will face many challenges – and we’re here to help.
Hospice Care
Definition: Hospice is an appropriate course of care for terminally ill patients in the last six months of their lives, once curative treatments are no longer an option.
When you choose hospice care, the focus becomes the promotion of living as fully and as comfortably as possible. Our hospice caregivers help patients manage their illness and remain as comfortable as possible in their own environment. Our hospice care also helps ease the burden of families caring for patients during this time.
Eligibility: Hospice eligibility requires that two physicians certify that the patient has less than six months to live if the disease follows its normal course.
Cost: Our hospice care costs are paid 100% by Medicare and Medicaid. They are usually also covered by private insurance. The Medicare Hospice Benefit includes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, 24/7 access to care, nursing, social services, chaplain visits, grief support following a death and other services deemed appropriate by the hospice agency. Read more about paying for hospice care here.
Holy Savior Hospice pledges to provide the highest quality hospice service in the cities and surrounding areas of Corpus Christi-Kingsville, San Antonio-New Braunfels and Dallas- Fort Worth. We work to make patients feel comfortable, supported and we give them the ability to experience an enhanced quality of life surrounded by those they love.
Location: Both our hospice and palliative teams make regular visits at the bedside, wherever a patient calls home — a family residence, a long-term care facility, or a hospice unit — and we are on-duty 24 hours a day/seven days a week.
Care Teams: Both our hospice and palliative care is provided using an Interdisciplinary Care Team (IDT) approach, with staff who are highly experienced in comforting and alleviating the physical and emotional pain of someone facing end-of-life. Both our palliative and hospice teams address physical, emotional and spiritual pain during care.
Palliative Care
Definition: Palliative care is compassionate, comfort care that provides relief from the symptoms and physical and mental stress of a serious or life-limiting illness. Palliative care can start at diagnosis, during curative treatment and follow-up, or at the end of life.
The palliative care team works in partnership with your own doctor to provide an extra layer of support for you and your family.
If you’re a patient, our experienced team improves how you feel, both physically and emotionally. The team at Holy Savior Palliative Care is deeply committed and highly skilled at providing care and other resources you require throughout the course of a serious illness.
If you’re a caregiver, we provide expert support as you care for your loved one. You can get education and coaching to be a more confident caregiver, as well as emotional and spiritual support to sustain you during the demands of caring.
Eligibility: Palliative care can start at the discretion of the physician and patient at any time, at any stage of illness, terminal or not.
Cost: Savior Hospice has one of the only licensed Palliative Medicare Programs Texas, meaning there is no out-of-pocket cost to you. Read more about who pays for palliative care here.
Location: Both our hospice and palliative teams make regular visits at the bedside, wherever a patient calls home — a family residence, a long-term care facility, or a hospice unit — and we are on-duty 24 hours a day/seven days a week.
Care Teams: Both our hospice and palliative care is provided using an Interdisciplinary Care Team (IDT) approach, with staff who are highly experienced in comforting and alleviating the physical and emotional pain of someone facing end-of-life. Both our palliative and hospice teams address physical, emotional and spiritual pain during care.
When you or a loved one is seriously ill, you will face many challenges – and we’re here to help.
Hospice Care
Definition: Hospice is an appropriate course of care for terminally ill patients in the last six months of their lives, once curative treatments are no longer an option.
When you choose hospice care, the focus becomes the promotion of living as fully and as comfortably as possible. Our hospice caregivers help patients manage their illness and remain as comfortable as possible in their own environment. Our hospice care also helps ease the burden of families caring for patients during this time.
Eligibility: Hospice eligibility requires that two physicians certify that the patient has less than six months to live if the disease follows its normal course.
Cost: Our hospice care costs are paid 100% by Medicare and Medicaid. They are usually also covered by private insurance. The Medicare Hospice Benefit includes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, 24/7 access to care, nursing, social services, chaplain visits, grief support following a death and other services deemed appropriate by the hospice agency. Read more about paying for hospice care here.
Holy Savior Hospice pledges to provide the highest quality hospice service in the cities and surrounding areas of Corpus Christi-Kingsville, San Antonio-New Braunfels and Dallas-Fort Worth. We work to make patients feel comfortable, supported and we give them the ability to experience an enhanced quality of life surrounded by those they love.
Location: Both our hospice and palliative teams make regular visits at the bedside, wherever a patient calls home — a family residence, a long-term care facility, or a hospice unit — and we are on-duty 24 hours a day/seven days a week.
Care Teams: Both our hospice and palliative care is provided using an Interdisciplinary Care Team (IDT) approach, with staff who are highly experienced in comforting and alleviating the physical and emotional pain of someone facing end-of-life. Both our palliative and hospice teams address physical, emotional and spiritual pain during care.
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