Work alongside hospice and palliative teams
Hospice teams visit and stay on call, but outside short crisis periods they don't staff the home around the clock. Families often need hands in the house between visits. Palliative programs see patients earlier, when help at home can decide whether someone stays there.
Where you fit alongside hospice
For a non-medical home care agency, hospice is a natural partner. The hospice handles the clinical side and the family still needs someone for bathing, meals, overnight sitting, and rest for the main caregiver.
For a home health agency, palliative and hospice teams matter at both ends: patients who aren't ready for hospice yet, and patients whose goals change while you're seeing them.
Hospice social workers and liaisons talk to families at the hardest moment. They recommend agencies whose caregivers are gentle, reliable, and comfortable around end-of-life care.
- Titles we target
- Hospice Liaison · Intake Coordinator · Palliative Care Social Worker · Director of Patient Services · Volunteer and Bereavement Coordinator
- Where they work
- Hospice agencies, hospital palliative care programs, community palliative care
- Best fit for
- Home careHome health
What they need from an agency
Your first conversations should make these clear. If one of them isn't true yet, fix it before outreach starts.
Caregivers who are steady
Comfortable around dying, calm with grieving families, and on time every shift.
Short notice coverage
End-of-life needs change fast. Say how quickly you can add hours or overnights.
Respect for the plan
Your caregivers work inside the hospice care plan and call the hospice nurse when something changes.
Kind billing
Families are already overwhelmed. Clear private-pay rates and no surprises.
What goes out from your profile
Hospice messages are gentle and practical. We reference the person's role and ask how families get help between visits.
First message · example
thanks for connecting. you were an oncology nurse before moving into hospice, and now you handle intake for a hospice that serves a lot of patients at home. i run a home care agency here in Tampa. when a family needs someone in the house between your team's visits, do you have an agency you usually point them to?
Follow-up · 3 days later
no rush. if a family ever needs overnight or extra hours at home, happy to be someone you can mention.
Other referral partners we reach
- Hospital discharge plannersThe people who hand a patient the list of agencies before they leave the hospital.
- Case managers & social workersCase management leaders and medical social workers who handle the hardest discharges.
- Skilled nursing & rehabSocial services and admissions teams who send every short-term rehab patient home.
- Physician practicesPractice managers and referral coordinators who decide where the home health order goes.
- Senior livingAssisted and independent living leaders whose residents need more help than the community provides.
- Payers & care coordinationManaged care, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid waiver care coordinators who assign services at home.
- Elder law & care managersElder law attorneys and aging life care managers who advise families before care starts.
Be the help families need between visits
On the audit we count the hospice and palliative teams in your service area who are on LinkedIn and pick the first ones to reach. Thirty minutes, free.