Organization: Care Guide Partners Inc
Mission: Care Guide Partners, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose express purpose if to develop care models for individuals with chronic and advanced illnesses who need medical and psychosocial assistance in their homes, workplace, or other locations designated by the individual. In 2019, Care Guide Partners, Inc. was licensed to provide adult and pediatric palliative care in thirty-five counties in Kentucky and to provide pediatric care in ten counties in Indiana.
Activities: Adult Palliative Care: Palliative care is provided by a team of specialists who work together with the patient's other healthcare providers to offer an extra layer of support. The patients we see most often have multiple chronic conditions such as COPD, CHF, dementia, cancer, diabetes, neurologic conditions (MS, ALS, post-stroke) and more. We work to help define personal goals and needs to create an individualized care plan to help improve the quality of life for the patient and their family and to help them understand their treatments and choices. The palliative care team may make recommendations to lessen the efforts of symptoms such as pain shortness of breath, fatigue, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite and difficulty sleeping. Palliative care may include specialty visits by a nurse practitioner or physician in addition to other interdisciplinary team specialists like social workers, nurses, CNA's, chaplains and grief counselors. Patients receiving palliative care to not have to discontinue curative treatment for their illnesses. In 2019 we served 223 patients in our adult palliative care program.
KOURAGEOUS KIDS: Kourageous Kids: Hosparus started the nation's first pediatric program in 1980 and has cared for more than 1,300 children since its inception. Hosparus Health's Kourageous Kids Program cares for terminally ill children and their families, regardless of their family's ability to pay. Children's hospice care is a concept and delivery system of care that brings together physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, therapists, teachers, and volunteers as a team. This system provides comprehensive care for children with life-threatening conditions so they and their families may continue to spend the rest of their days with the best quality of life possible. Hosparus recorded expenses in 2019 of $480,516 related to direct Kourageous Kids program staff salaries and direct support expenses. The total estimated value of charity care Hosparus provided for Kourageous Kids was more than $250K. This expense is a cost estimate based on the organization wide cost to charge ratio for charity care. Hosparus does not pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as charity care and those amounts are excluded from net patient service revenue. Hosparus Health served 114 KKids palliative care patients in 2019.
NTEE category: Health Care
Secondary category: Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines