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Determine hospice eligibility at a glance with color-coded, disease-specific guidelines, palliative performance scale & referral by face sheet upload.

VITAS Healthcare, the nations leading provider of end-of-life care, offers easy-to-use hospice resources for clinicians.

Start by personalizing your role-based profile: physician; advanced practice provider; nurse (RN/LPN/LVN); case manager; social worker; healthcare administrator; PT/OT/RD/RT/SLP, or VITAS employee.

Determine your patients hospice eligibility at a glance with color-coded, disease-specific hospice eligibility guidelines and functional assessment tools. Refer patients quickly and seamlessly to VITAS via face sheet capture or form submission from your device.

Assess disease-specific hospice eligibility quickly:

ALS

Alzheimers and Non-Alzheimers Dementia

Cancer

Heart Disease

HIV/AIDS

Liver Disease

Lung Disease

Renal Disease

Sepsis

General hospice guidelines

Make Informed eligibility/referral decisions with interactive assessment tools

Interactive Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) assesses a patients functional status/activities of daily living (ADLs); instant 10%-100% PPS rating offers guidance on hospice eligibility and intuitively suggests next step

BMI calculator includes a guide to determine whether patients BMI is under, normal, over or obese

Refer patients to hospice easily, quickly and securely

Face sheet photo capture

Mobile form submission

Immediate confirmation of successful submission and quick VITAS response to support

seamless transition to hospice care

Find VITAS hospice locations or contact staff

Use zip code or state maps to find VITAS service areas, office locations, phone numbers and inpatient hospice units

Tap to call VITAS admissions staff or to request contact by phone/email

Enhance your hospice knowledge

Explore and register for VITAS webinars on end-of-life care topics (earn CE/CME credit for some roles and in some states) and receive in-app reminders and calendar updates.

Share VITAS hospice information/PDFs easily with patients, family members, colleagues and non-app users

When your seriously or terminally ill patients are ready for hospice care, refer them securely

and confidently via this app to VITAS professionals in 14 states and the District of Columbia.,