Spiritual Counseling

The hospice must provide an assessment of the patient’s and family’s spiritual needs.
Spiritual counseling is provided to meet these needs in accordance with the patient’s and family’s acceptance of this service, and in a manner consistent with patient and family beliefs and desires.
Reasonable efforts to facilitate visits by local clergy, pastoral counselors or other individuals who can support the patient’s spiritual needs will be made.
The comprehensive Spiritual assessment will be completed within 5 days of the EOB and the information from it will be used to develop the CPOC.
The Spiritual update of the comprehensive assessment will be completed at least every 15 days and the information from the assessment will be used to update the CPOC.
Ensures that the spiritual needs of the patients are met as identified in the patient’s initial assessment, comprehensive assessment and updated assessments.

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