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Home Health & Hospice Care in Pacific Grove
Pacific Grove families choose Central Coast VNA & Hospice for trusted home health and hospice care, with over 74 years of helping neighbors recover, manage illness, and live with comfort and dignity.
Why Choose VNA for Home Health and Hospice Care in Pacific Grove?
We are a nonprofit, local organization with a team-based model that includes registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, therapists, social workers, hospice aides, chaplains, volunteers, and bereavement specialists. Care plans are individualized, and support is available around the clock.
VNA serves Pacific Grove and surrounding communities with the full continuum of home health, palliative, and hospice services. Families choose us for clinical quality, clear communication, and compassionate guidance through every step of care.
VNA’s Home Health and Hospice Care Services
Below is a quick look at how we help in Pacific Grove. Each service is delivered by skilled clinicians and shaped to your goals and preferences.
Who qualifies & how to start
Getting care should be simple. Most home health and hospice starts with a physician referral, followed by an at-home assessment and a plan of care that fits your needs.
- Home Health: You are homebound and need part-time or intermittent skilled nursing or therapy under a doctor’s care, Medicare covers eligible services when provided by a Medicare-certified home health agency, and to begin you can ask your physician to refer VNA or call us for help with the referral and insurance verification.
- Hospice: You have a life-limiting illness with a prognosis of six months or less if the illness follows its normal course, you choose comfort-focused care and sign a hospice election of benefit, and to start your physician and a hospice clinician certify eligibility and we create a plan for symptom relief, equipment, medications, and family support.
Insurance, costs & Medicare basics
VNA accepts Medicare and many insurance plans. Below are common Medicare points families ask about; your exact costs depend on your coverage.
- Home Health: For patients who qualify, Medicare Part A and/or Part B covers 100% of approved home health services with no deductible or coinsurance, while you pay 20% coinsurance for durable medical equipment; care is ordered by a doctor, and the plan is reviewed at least every 60 days.
- Hospice: Most families use the Medicare Hospice Benefit, which covers nearly all hospice services, including nursing, medications for pain and symptoms, equipment, and supplies; there may be small copayments, such as up to $5 for certain prescriptions and a small fee for inpatient respite, and care for unrelated conditions remains covered under regular Medicare or insurance.
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If you are a clinician who values time at the bedside and teamwork, VNA offers meaningful roles across the Monterey Peninsula. Typical openings include RN case managers, LVNs, NPs, therapy clinicians, medical social workers, hospice aides, and chaplains, supported by an experienced leadership team and local mentors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Home health focuses on recovery at home after an illness, injury, or surgery with skilled nursing and therapy. Hospice centers on comfort and quality of life when cure is not the goal, supporting both the patient and family.
A doctor must order care, your parent must be certified homebound, and they must need intermittent skilled nursing or therapy. A Medicare-certified agency like CCVNA coordinates the assessment and plan of care, which a physician reviews every 60 days.
Eligibility starts when a physician certifies a life expectancy of six months or less and the patient chooses comfort-focused care. Hospice can continue beyond six months as long as a physician recertifies eligibility.
No, under Medicare rules you cannot receive home health and hospice benefits at the same time.
CCVNA helps families transition between services as goals change.