Lake Superior Hospice
Mission Statement
Providing exceptional hospice and end-of-life care for families and patients with a life-limiting diagnosis.
Vision Statement
To continue being the preferred hospice provider for patients and their families through clinical excellence, quality service, outreach, advocacy, and collaboration.
Lake Superior Life Care & Hospice (LSLC&H) is a nonprofit, community-based organization serving Marquette County since 1979. As one of Michigan’s oldest existing hospices, LSLC&H provides personal and professional care 24 hours a day 7 days a week. LSLC&H strives to comfort patients and their families during life limiting situations.
Hospice is palliative care for patients near the end of their life. Hospice care can be provided in a patients’ home, hospice centers, hospitals, long-term care facilities, or wherever a patient resides. Palliative care focuses on improving a patient’s quality of life by managing pain and other distressing symptoms of a serious life-limiting illness.
Lake Superior Life Care & Hospice creates a personal and specialized care plan to ensure each patient and their families are getting the care they need and deserve. Physicians, who specialize in hospice and palliative medicine work with other doctors and healthcare professionals, listen to patients and align their treatments with what is important to them, and help families navigate the complex healthcare system.
Lake Superior Life Care & Hospice offers expert emotional, spiritual, and physical support to take away some of the burdens from the families during a difficult time to allow them to spend quality time together.
The Four C’s of Lake Superior Hospice
Care – We offer personal and professional care to each and every patient and their families with a team of physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual counselors, home health aides, grief and bereavement counselors and volunteers.
Compassion – Our promise is to provide the highest level of compassionate care so families can focus on the time they have together.
Commitment –Our promise is to provide the highest level of compassionate care so families can focus on the time they have together.
Collaboration –We work with our core hospice team, healthcare providers, facilities, physicians and the community to assist patients and their families to ensure they are receiving the best care possible.
Who Pays for Hospice?
There is no reason to defer hospice care due to financial concerns. The Medicare Hospice Benefit is an inclusive benefit, in which all services that are related to the terminal illness are covered 100 percent by Medicare part A. Care that is unrelated to the terminal illness continues to be covered by Medicare Parts A and B, with all normal rules applicable (e.g., co-payments, coverage guidelines and deductibles).
Coverage includes everything involved in hospice care, from visits by a nurse, physician and other healthcare professionals to therapy, medication and supplies.
For those not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, payment for hospice can come from private insurance or an HMO, since these also include a hospice benefit.
Facing a terminal illness brings with it many concerns. Paying for end-of-life care shouldn’t be one of them.
The Medicare Hospice Benefit
The Medicare Hospice Benefit provides coverage for the following services:
- An interdisciplinary team of hospice professionals
- Home medical equipment
- Medication
- Respite care
- Continuous care
- Inpatient care
- Routine home care
- Bereavement support
Source: NHPCO's Facts and Figures: Hospice Care in America
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Lake Superior Hospice Service Area Map
Hospice Compare Information
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