• Provides palliative or comfort care rather than curative treatment in the patient’s home, nursing home, or hospital setting in the Rugby, Towner, Leeds, Bottineau, and surrounding areas.  
• Emphasizes maintaining the highest quality of life through counseling, and symptom and pain management. Our focus turns from cure to care.
• Provides supplies, medications, and equipment needed to maintain quality of life.
• Supports family and caregivers through counseling, resources, training, and education.

By providing interdisciplinary care that is overseen by a medical director and several care providers, our Hospice program is dedicated to working with each patient to maintain the highest level of quality of life possible.

Patient referrals can originate from personal physicians, community agencies, caregivers, friends, family members, and patients themselves. Anyone who meets the qualifying criteria for Hospice will be admitted. Patients much have an illness with a life expectancy of 6 months or less to be eligible for Hospice.

This includes illnesses such as:

• Alzheimer’s
• Cancer
• COPD
• Parkinson’s
• Liver Disease
• Dementia
• AIDS
• ALS
• Heart Disease
• Kidney Disease

Hospice services will be billed to your insurance.  Generally, services are covered when the qualifying criteria are met.  Services may be eligible for coverage

• Medicare
• Medicaid
• North Dakota Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Other commercial and private insurance companies

Memorials, donations, and The Good Samaritan Health Services Foundation significantly supplement these insurances to pay for Hospice care, so families can focus on their loved ones without worrying about finances.