Shield Hospice is a hospice care center situated at San Diego, California. 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 A11785. Shield Hospice comes under the CMS regional office located at San Francisco. This CMS regional office covers all hospices located in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Territories. Services provided at Shield 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.
Shield 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.

Absolute Care Health Systems Hospice, Inc. 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.