For Physicians & Healthcare Professionals
Stay With Your Patient.
Give Them More Support.
A hospice referral does not have to mean stepping away from your patient's care. Stonewood Hospice works alongside physicians, case managers, discharge planners, social workers, nurses, facilities, patients and families to provide coordinated support when comfort-focused care may be appropriate.
You don't have to be certain that a patient qualifies before contacting us. Our team can help evaluate eligibility and guide the next step.
Available 24/7 • Locally Owned • RN-Led • Serving Southeast Texas
RN-Led Care
Clinical leadership with hands-on hospice experience.
24/7 Support
Responsive nursing and hospice support when patients and families need us.
Local Southeast Texas Team
Care delivered by people who live and work in the communities we serve.
Coordinated Care
Communication and collaboration with physicians, facilities and care partners.
Wondering Whether Hospice May Be Appropriate?
Healthcare professionals often recognize changes long before a family realizes hospice may be an option. If you are seeing a pattern of decline, Stonewood can help determine whether a hospice evaluation may be appropriate.
- Repeated hospitalizations or emergency room visits
- Progressive decline despite treatment
- Increasing weakness or loss of functional ability
- Growing dependence with activities of daily living
- Significant or ongoing weight loss
- Increasing symptom burden
- Frequent infections or complications
- Advanced progressive illness
- Increasing caregiver burden
- A shift in goals from aggressive treatment toward comfort and quality of life
These indicators alone do not determine hospice eligibility. Eligibility is based on the patient's individual clinical circumstances and applicable hospice requirements. Stonewood can review the situation and help determine the appropriate next step.
Your Patient Can Still Be Your Patient.
Hospice adds an interdisciplinary layer of support around the patient and family. When appropriate and desired, the patient's attending physician can remain involved while Stonewood coordinates hospice services, symptom management, nursing care and other support included in the plan of care.
Our goal is not to replace trusted relationships. It is to provide additional expertise, communication and support during a medically and emotionally complex stage of care.
Stay Involved
Support continuity between the patient and trusted healthcare providers.
Add Support
Stonewood's interdisciplinary hospice team helps address physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs.
Coordinate Care
Our team communicates with appropriate care partners to help create a smoother transition into hospice services.
A Simple Path for Healthcare Professionals
If you believe a patient may benefit from hospice support, contact Stonewood. You do not need to have every answer before making the call.
Physicians & Practices
Hospital Case Managers
Discharge Planners
Social Workers
Nurses
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Assisted Living Communities
Other Healthcare Professionals
From Referral to Support
Contact Stonewood
Call our team or complete the secure physician referral form.
Clinical Review
Our hospice team reviews the patient's clinical situation and available information.
Eligibility & Family Conversation
When appropriate, our team coordinates with the patient, family, physician and referral source to discuss hospice eligibility, services and goals of care.
Coordinated Admission & Care
If hospice is elected and eligibility requirements are met, Stonewood coordinates the transition and begins the plan of care.
More Support When Patient Needs Change
Hospice Care
Compassionate hospice services provided wherever the patient calls home.
Learn About Hospice CareInpatient Hospice Care
Short-term higher-level hospice care for qualifying patients whose symptoms require intensive management in an inpatient setting. Stonewood's Inpatient Hospice Unit is located in Port Arthur and can also serve eligible patients referred by other hospice providers.
Learn About Inpatient CareStonewood Senior Living
A home-like residential setting for seniors needing personalized assistance and supportive care.
Learn About Senior LivingLocal Matters in Hospice Care.
Stonewood Hospice is locally owned and RN-led in Southeast Texas. Our team understands the healthcare providers, facilities and communities we serve because this is our home too.
When a healthcare professional calls Stonewood, they are connecting with a local team committed to responsive communication, compassionate care and personal attention.
Serving Orange, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland, Groves, Port Neches, Bridge City, Vidor, West Orange and surrounding Southeast Texas communities.
Hospice Referral Questions
When you're wondering if it's time
Let's Talk About Your Patient.
You don't have to make the hospice decision alone. Stonewood can review the situation, answer questions and help determine the next step.
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.