Rosewood Hospice is a Medicare-certified, Joint Commission–accredited hospice serving adults across Southern California who have a serious illness and a prognosis of six months or less. Our physician, nurses, aides, social worker and chaplain manage pain and other symptoms in the patient’s home, and stay with the family through the illness and after.
Our intake coordinator answers the line at every hour — nights, weekends, and holidays — with a nurse on call.
We walk with you from the first call to the last day — nothing is handled alone.
Hospice is a Medicare-covered benefit for adults with a serious illness and a prognosis of six months or less. Research consistently finds that hospice care reduces pain and symptom burden and improves quality of life at the end of life. Yet the median patient in the United States enters hospice about 17 days before death, and roughly one in four enrolls in the final week — late enough that much of the benefit is lost. Earlier referral gives our team time to control symptoms, prevent avoidable hospital visits, and help the patient live the remaining time on their own terms. Most patients we care for are in their own bedroom. Others are in an assisted living residence, a board-and-care, or a skilled nursing facility. Wherever the patient lives, that is where we come.
The patient, a family member, or a physician can call. Our intake coordinator listens, confirms hospice eligibility with the attending physician, verifies the Medicare or Medi-Cal benefit, and schedules the admission visit — often the same day, always within 24 hours.
At the admission visit, the nurse examines the patient, reviews every medication for what helps and what has stopped helping, orders the hospital bed, oxygen or other equipment the patient needs, and leaves a comfort kit for symptoms that come up between visits. Medicare requires that hospice nursing be available at every hour; at Rosewood, a live person answers the number, day or night.
Regular nursing visits to assess the patient and adjust the plan of care, aide visits for bathing and personal care, and all medications, equipment and supplies related to the terminal illness delivered to the home — with a nurse on call at every hour.
A short stay at a partner facility when symptoms need round-the-clock management the home cannot provide, or a planned respite stay of up to five days so a family caregiver can rest.
A physician-led plan for pain, breathlessness, nausea, anxiety and restlessness, adjusted as often as the patient’s symptoms change. Meta-analyses of hospice and palliative care show clinically meaningful reductions in symptom burden compared with usual care.
A chaplain who meets the patient inside their own tradition, or with no tradition at all. Prayer, sacraments, life review, or simply company. This is care for the patient first; family members are welcome to participate.
Practical support for the patient and family: advance directives, POLST, help understanding the Medicare benefit and any secondary coverage, family meetings, and decisions about placement if the home is no longer safe.
Trained volunteers to read aloud to the patient, run errands, or sit at the bedside so a spouse can sleep. After the patient’s death, Medicare requires hospice to provide bereavement support to the family for at least 13 months, and Rosewood does.
Rosewood cares for patients across Southern California. We visit private homes, family homes, assisted living residences, board-and-care homes, and skilled nursing facilities. If you are not sure whether your address is in our service area, call and ask — we can often arrange care beyond our usual lines.
Our intake coordinator will listen, answer questions honestly, and tell you plainly whether hospice is the right fit — no pressure, no obligation, no cost.
