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Home-based support helps you manage serious illness while focusing on comfort, your goals, and what matters most.
Expert support designed around your comfort, goals, wishes, and quality of life.
Our team helps manage pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, and other symptoms that can interfere with everyday life. The goal is to help you feel as comfortable and supported as possible at home.
Palliative care focuses on quality of life. We take the time to understand your goals, priorities, and what matters most to you so your care can support the way you want to live.
Palliative care comes to you. Our clinical team assesses your needs, makes home visits, and works with your primary care physician to help manage symptoms and provide additional support as your condition changes.
We help you and your family discuss goals of care, understand your options, and communicate your wishes. Our team can also provide guidance with advance care planning documents that help ensure your choices are understood.
Caring for someone with a serious illness can be challenging. Mission Hospice provides emotional and practical support for caregivers while volunteers can offer companionship and respite for patients and families.
Serious illness affects more than physical health. Our team provides medical, emotional, spiritual, and practical support that recognizes you as a whole person and respects your individual beliefs, wishes, and values.
A compassionate team working with your primary care physician to support you and your family at home.
Provides clinical guidance and consultation, helping patients and caregivers navigate symptoms, concerns, and changing needs. Nurses are available by phone 24/7.
Assesses your needs, makes home visits, helps manage symptoms, and works to keep you as comfortable and supported as possible.
Provides medical expertise, symptom management guidance, and oversight to help ensure care aligns with your goals and needs.
Provides emotional and practical support while helping patients and families navigate challenges and connect with helpful community resources.
Offers compassionate, unbiased support for patients and families seeking comfort, reflection, meaning, or connection, regardless of faith or spiritual beliefs.
Provide companionship and respite, offering patients meaningful connection while giving family caregivers additional support.
From your first conversation through changing needs, we’re here to provide comfort, guidance, and support.
We begin by learning about your health, symptoms, goals, concerns, and support system so we can understand how palliative care can best support you.
Our team collaborates with your primary care physician to provide support centered around symptom management, comfort, and quality of life.
Home visits, symptom management, education, emotional and spiritual support, and 24/7 nurse consultation help you and your family navigate changing needs.
As your illness progresses, we help you understand your choices, communicate your wishes, and make informed decisions that reflect your goals, values, and priorities.
Find answers to common questions about Mission Hospice’s home-based palliative care and support for people living with serious illness.
Mission Hospice’s palliative care is designed for people with serious, life-limiting illnesses who are considered by their primary care physician to be in the last phase of life. This may include people living with cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, kidney or liver disease, dementia, neurological disorders, or stroke.
Mission Hospice serves patients and families throughout the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay. Contact our team to discuss your needs and confirm whether palliative care is available in your community.
Palliative care may be helpful when a serious illness is causing difficult symptoms, affecting quality of life, or creating challenging decisions for you and your family. Mission Hospice can discuss your situation and help determine whether its palliative care program may be appropriate.
Coverage varies depending on your insurance plan and eligibility requirements. Many services may be covered by Medicare, Medi-Cal, and private insurance plans. Our team can help verify benefits and explain available options.
Yes. Unlike hospice care, palliative care can be provided alongside treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, dialysis, or other disease-directed therapies.
A referral is often recommended, but requirements may vary depending on your insurance coverage and care needs. Our team can help guide you through the referral process.
Absolutely. Palliative care is designed to support both patients and families. Caregivers receive education, guidance, emotional support, and help navigating complex decisions.
Palliative care is available at any stage of a serious illness and can be provided alongside curative treatment. Hospice care is intended for patients nearing the end of life who are no longer pursuing curative treatment and are focused primarily on comfort.
Get answers, explore your care options, and find the support that’s right for you and your family.