Facility-Based Hospice Care in Assisted Living & SNFs

Our Facility Partnerships

How we work inside facility settings

Bluebird partners with assisted living communities, memory care units, skilled nursing facilities, and inpatient rehab settings across Oakland County. We bring the Medicare hospice benefit to your loved one inside the place they already call home.

Will hospice conflict with the care my loved one already receives?

This is the question every facility-based family asks. The answer is no. Hospice is layered onto the care your loved one already has — it doesn't replace the facility staff, and it doesn't disrupt the routines or relationships that are already in place. Facility nurses and aides keep doing what they do. Bluebird adds the clinical and emotional support that hospice covers: pain and symptom management, equipment, medications related to the diagnosis, a chaplain, a social worker, and a 24/7 nurse line.

For most families, the change is felt as more support arriving — not a new set of strangers replacing the familiar ones.

Coordinated Care with Facility Staff
Equipment, medications and care supply cost covered by hospice
Increased and enhanced family communication from hospice staff
Nurse, Aide, Chaplain, Social Worker and Volunteer visits
24/7 emergency nurse available

How Care Works in a Facility

How Bluebird and your facility coordinate

01

The first 24 hours

A Bluebird nurse meets with your loved one, the family, and the facility's nursing leadership. We review the care plan together. Nothing gets changed without the family and the facility on the same page.

02

Defined visit schedule

Bluebird's RN, CNA, social worker, and chaplain visit on a regular schedule. Facility staff know when we're coming. The family knows when we're coming. The schedule flexes as needs change.

03

Equipment and medications

Hospice equipment beyond what the facility provides — specialty mattresses, oxygen, comfort kits — is delivered directly. Medications related to the diagnosis are coordinated and delivered.

04

Pain and symptom management

Symptom changes are managed by the Bluebird team in coordination with the facility nursing staff. Breakthrough symptoms after hours go through our 24/7 nurse line.

05

Communication back to the family

Every visit generates an update. Families who can't be present every day get a clear, calm picture of how their loved one is doing.

For DONs & social workers

For facility DONs, charge nurses, and social workers

You need a hospice partner who shows up on time, communicates clearly, and doesn't add work to your floor. That's what we built Bluebird to be.

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Same-day admissions

including weekends and evenings

A 24/7 nurse line

answered by a Bluebird RN — not a call center

Clean documentation

delivered into your workflow, not added to it

Medication coordination

with your facility pharmacy

A named contact

for partnership questions — you call a person, not a queue

Whether you're a family or a facility partner, the next step is the same.

A conversation with a Bluebird nurse takes 15 minutes. We'll explain how facility-based hospice works in your loved one's specific setting, coordinate with the staff who already know them, and help you figure out the right timing.

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Hospice care where your loved one already lives.