Commonwealth Hospice

Commonwealth Hospice , also known as The Care Team Hospice is a hospice care center situated at Athol, Massachusetts. This palliative care is medicare certified, hence if you are covered by medicare, medicare will pay the hospice for your care.Unique hospice identification number provided by medicare to this hospice care is 221618. Commonwealth Hospice comes under the CMS regional office located at Boston. This CMS regional office covers all hospices located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont. Services provided at Commonwealth Hospice mainly includes home health aide, counseling, homemaker, medical social services, medical supply services, nursing services, occupational therapy, other, physician services, physical therapy, short term inpatient care, speech pathology services.

Commonwealth Hospice provides special care for people who are terminally ill. This involves a team-oriented approach that addresses the medical, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient. Hospice also provides support to the patient’s family or caregiver.

The Care Team Hospice type, unique identification code, ownership type, accreditation,short term inpatient care type, address, contact number, fax number and all other information is provided as below. Recipients can directly walkin or can call on the below given phone number for appointment.

Quality of patient care is measured based on the survey done by the patients who received the hospice care, as well as the experiences of their informal primary caregivers. Main points included in the survey are treatment preferences, beliefs/values addressed (if desired by the patient), pain screening, pain assessment, dyspnea screening, dyspnea treatment,patients treated with an opioid who are given a bowel regimen.