Why Your Health Offers Hospice Care: Supporting Patients and Families Through Every Stage
Once a patient transitions to hospice in many traditional models, they are often transferred to an entirely new care team and organization. While these teams provide excellent clinical and emotional support, the transition itself can create added stress during one of life’s most vulnerable stages.
The Hidden Challenge in Traditional Hospice Transitions
Patients and families are often asked to:
Meet an entirely new care team
Rebuild trust under emotional strain
Learn new care processes
Re-explain medical history during an already overwhelming time
Even when hospice care is deeply compassionate and clinically strong, the transition itself can feel destabilizing. At Your Health, hospice is designed to provide steadiness and continuity, not disruption.
Why Continuity Matters in Hospice Care
Continuity in care helps support a more stable and supportive experience for patients and families.
When hospice is integrated into primary care:
Emotional Safety Is Strengthened
Patients are supported by clinicians who already understand their history, values, fears, and personal goals.
Care Planning Feels More Personal
Years of medical context help guide comfort-focused care decisions and symptom management.
Families Experience More Consistent Support
Families are not forced to build new relationships while also navigating anticipatory grief.
Communication Feels More Familiar and Trusted
Care teams already understand how patients and families prefer to receive information clearly, gently, and honestly.
Continuity does not replace hospice compassion. It helps deepen it.
A More Connected Model of Care
Many traditional models involve:
Primary Care → Specialist → Hospital → External Hospice Agency
Your Health is building a more connected path:
Primary Care → Advanced Illness Support → Hospice → Family Bereavement Support
This aligns with our commitment to meeting patients and families
wherever they live and supporting them across their entire care journey.
Quality and Compliance You Can Trust
Your Health hospice services align with nationally recognized quality standards set by a CMS-approved, independent nonprofit accrediting organization for hospice and home health providers.
CHAP focuses on:
Patient-centered care standards
Clinical quality and compliance
Federal regulatory alignment
Organizational excellence in hospice and home health care
Your Health nurses are trained and certified to meet these standards, reinforcing a commitment to safe, ethical, and compassionate hospice support.
Hospice Leadership Guiding This Work
Hospice at Your Health is guided by experienced leaders dedicated to compassionate, high-quality end-of-life care support.
Veronica McMahon brings extensive hospice leadership experience supporting patients and families through serious illness and hospice transitions.
Theresa Younis brings deep operational and clinical leadership experience across hospice and healthcare delivery, helping ensure programs remain patient-centered, compliant, and sustainable.
Scott Klein supports strategic and operational development, helping ensure hospice services remain scalable, compliant, and aligned with Your Health’s care philosophy.
Leadership in Grief and Bereavement Support
A defining strength of Your Health’s hospice and palliative approach is its commitment to grief and bereavement support, shaped in large part by Dr. Donald Blake, PhD.
Dr. Blake specializes in grief, bereavement, and emotional trauma, bringing decades of experience as a clinician, educator, and leader. His evidence-based yet deeply compassionate approach has helped strengthen grief counseling standards across Your Health programs.
This expertise reinforces Your Health’s commitment to supporting not only patients, but families before, during, and after loss.
What This Means for Patients and Families
At Your Health, hospice care is designed to feel steady, familiar, and supportive during a time that can feel uncertain.
It means:
You do not have to start over with a new care team.
You do not have to re-tell your medical story to unfamiliar providers.
You can stay supported by clinicians who already know your history, preferences, and care goals.
Your family receives consistent guidance from a team they already trust.
Support continues before, during, and after loss.
Because during life’s most vulnerable moments, care should feel personal, consistent, and compassionate.
Our Ongoing Commitment
Hospice is one chapter of the care journey, not the end of the relationship.
Your Health remains committed to continuity, compassion, presence, and support through every stage of care.