Hospice Care of California

My experience with this company was a nightmare from the very beginning. During their initial appointment, they started my mother on some new medications for her lung disease. But they stopped ALL of her other medications without consulting me or her primary care physician. They later apologized and said that shouldn’t have happened. A couple of days later, when the assisted living home called in the middle of the night to tell them my mother was in distress; they elected not to have a nurse call or send a nurse out but to wait until the next afternoon when a nurse that had previously seen her was available. Didn’t I hire them to be sure my mother was kept comfortable when I couldn’t be there? To top this off, after 2 or 3, ten minute, visits with my mother their social worker called to inform me that they had determined that my mother was capable of making her own medical decisions and they would no longer honor my Power of Attorney for Health Care. I had been handling my mother’s health care for over 7 years! Then when I attempted to fire them, they wouldn’t let because now only my mother could. So they took their form to my mother and she told them to call me because she said she didn’t understand medical things anymore. I told my mother to sign the form and was never so happy as when I got these people out of our lives!