Contact Information

9940 Franklin Square Drive, S-K
Baltimore, MD 21236
Telephone: (410)248-3000
Toll Free: 866-234-7742
FAX: (410)248-3057
E-mail:
Web Address: www.communityhospices.org

Other Office Locations
Serving patients in MD, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia

Services Offered

Family Support Services, Individual Support Services, Individual Family Care, Community Supported Living Arrangements, Respite Care, Resource Coordination, and Transportation.

Individuals Have the Following Types of Disabilities:
AIDS, Autism, Blindness/Severe Visual Impairment, Chemical Dependency (Including Alcoholism), Cystic Fibrosis, Deafness/Severe Hearing Impairment, Mental Retardation, Behavioral Problems, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy/Seizure Disorder, Mental Retardation, Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, Spina Bifida, Spinal Cord Injury, Speech/Language Impairment, Specific Learning Disability, Head Injury, Orthopedic Impairment and other Neurological Impairment.

Number of Individuals Currently Being Served: 300

Ages Served: All

Home Region of DDA: Central, Eastern, Southern

Counties Served: Anne Arundel, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Carroll, Cecil, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Washington D.C, and Out of State.

Year Established: Leaders in End of Life Care since 1888

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Mission Statement

Community Hospices' mission is to provide quality healthcare and end of life services with compassion and innovation to foster dignity and independence in those Community Hospices serve.

Unique and Distinctive Qualities

• Excellent quality of care for both adult and pediatric patients and family support
• Social worker-family support services
• Grief and bereavement services up to 13 months after the patient passes
• Chaplains
• Volunteers to support families
• 24 hour on call support from Community Hospices' nurse case managers

Discuss How Your Agency Has Utilized .

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Describe your quality assurance practices, including any agency accreditations.

Guidelines are set by the Federal Guidelines and the State of Maryland which must be met. Each hospice must abide by these regulations in order to be a hospice program.

How Does Your Agency Support People In Becoming Active Members Of Their Community?

N/A

Steps Individuals Must Take to Apply for Services:

1. Family or patient requesting to receive comfort care/hospice
2. Have their physician certify that the patient is terminally ill (best judgement 6 months or less to live)
3. Meet hospice appropriate guidelines clinically set fourth by Centers for Medicare CMS)
4. Have/meet payment options i.e. insurance. See funding source

Special Considerations/Comments: None

Funding Sources: Private Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Charity

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