Comprehensive Hospice & Palliative Care

After months of an exhaustive search through the tangle of healthcare options available to my ailing father, my family and I were referred to Comprehensive Hospice and Palliative Care. We have been so pleased with the experience.
This is an incredibly difficult time for my father AND my mother, who serves as his full time caregiver. Comprehensive Hospice has held our hands and walked us through the challenges of my fathers’ care. We didn’t even consider hospice, since we don’t necessarily have a terminal diagnosis for my father. It was such a blessing to know that he qualified for services.
They were very efficient and thorough on his intake, also taking into account my mothers’ needs and feelings as his wife and caregiver. They follow through on their commitments. They support and educate. Their staff is helpful, reliable and sensitive.
We don’t know how long we will require these services, but we trust that Comprehensive will be there with us every step of the way. So grateful to know there is hope and help during this very difficult time. Thank you, Comprehensive Hospice.

I would not recommend this hospice service. In the end the whole thing fell through and my mother had to be taken to hospital for her final hours. They do not have their own hospice and if they are not licensed with the facility where your elder relative is housed then they have to try and find a place … this results in hours where the individual has no care package and may be in pain. In my mother’s situation we finally gave us after three hours of this service messing about attempting to find a place. Then when we got to the hospital they could only find a hospice bed far from where I was staying and at that point it would have taken hours to get the care package from a late night pharmacy to ease her pain. I finally just ended our relationship and had her taken upstairs to Scottsdale Health Care where the doctors and nurses were as good or better than hospice. My mother passed away and hour and a half later … can you image having to take her in an ambulance across town when she was in critical condition! She was in complete renal failure with her lungs filling up with fluids. The doctor at the hospital indicated she probably should have been in hospice long before that final day … a real hospice setting. These people really dropped the ball. Be very careful and ask the right questions before signing up with these services … there are so many out there that just aren’t prepared.