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The Bureau of Facility Standards serves and protects Idahoans requiring health-related services, supports and supervision in care facilities by:
*Promoting each individual's rights, well-being, safety, dignity, and highest level of functional independence;
*Enforcing compliance with state rules and federal regulations; and
*Providing information and education.
*We license and certify health care providers/suppliers following state and federal regulatory requirements, as applicable. We also conduct complaint investigations relating to these providers/suppliers.
The website has a provider/supplier list including: Ambulatory Surgery Centers,Home Health Agencies, Hospices, Hospitals, Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/ID),Long Term Care Facilities, and Rural Health Clinics. They are listed alphabetically or by region.

CNA Registry - Certified Nursing Assistant Registry is part of the Bureau of Facility Standards.

The Home Health Hotline was established for the purpose of receiving complaints or questions about local Home Health Agencies.

The Bureau is administered by the Division of Licensing and Certification.

Any person who needs support with the loss of a loved one.

Bereavement programs are facilitated by licensed social workers and chaplains. The focus of the scheduled grief groups are good self care for the bereaved as well as information throughout the life span in coping with losses.

Seasonal 5 part series groups are offered three to four times a year. Annual memorials are held and open to the public.
***Services available in Mountain Home:
560 North 6th. East
Mountain Home, ID 83647
Phone: (208) 587-6854
Fax: (208) 587-6872

Contact for specific information.

Palliative Care is medical care that focuses on treating the pain, symptoms, and stress that can accompany serious illness.

*Expert treatment of pain and symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, shortness-of-breath, depression and anxiety that may accompany serious illness.

Hospice services including Nursing, 2 medical directors, social work, chaplin services, CNA's, volunteers, PT, OT, dietician, bereavement services for 13 months after the passing. Bereavement support groups for community. Medicare and Medicaid.

For those with limited life expectancy - generally 6 months or under

Hospice and palliative care for those with a limited life expectancy-- team approach with patient's doctor, hospice medical director, RN, CNA and Medical Social Worker

Serves Benewah, Kootenai, Shoshone Counties - on-call staff available 24 hours a day -Eligibility requirements: Life threatening illness or shortened life expectancy

Hospice House provides 24-hour care to terminally ill patients whose care cannot be managed in their home. Can also provide Respite for up to 5 days as a Medicare benefit.

Contact for specific information.

panic Button' type medical alert device. Lifeline, the leading personal response service, ensures that help is available at the press of a button, 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year.

Services:
•Nursing Services
•Home Health Aide Services
•Medical Social Services
•Therapy and Rehabilitation Services

Physician must certify need for hospice

In home Hospice nursing, social work, certified nurses aides, spiritual & volunteer services. Comprehensive hospice care, often covered 100% by insurance.

At Auburn Crest Hospice, we believe in the power of choice and the right that we all should choose to live every moment. Choosing hospice care is a positive step in affirming the value of life - even during life’s final months.

At Auburn Crest Hospice, we believe in the power of choice and the right that we all should choose to live every moment. Choosing hospice care is a positive step in affirming the value of life - even during life’s final months.

THE AUBURN CREST PROMISE
Auburn Crest Hospice philosophy respects the rights of patient and family:

•The right to enjoy the highest quality of life possible.
•The right to die with dignity, as dignity is perceived and defined by the patient.
•The right to actively participate in managing the remaining life span, through the end-of-life.
•The right to remain a viable family member in the environment of choice.
•The right to have his/her needs considered on a personal, individual basis.

Auburn Crest Hospice strives to achieve excellence in its set objectives:

•Excellent physical care and relief of pain and other symptoms during illness without great mental or physical incapacitation.
•Ongoing emotional support of patients and family caregivers throughout illness.
•Support of the patient’s participation as an active family member by executing his/her end-of-life plan.
•Assistance to the patient and the family in working through the grieving process and other issues involved in serious illness, changes in lifestyle and loss.
•Assistance with the family’s healthy resolution of bereavement issues up to a year or more after the death of the patient as needed.
•Participation in an ongoing community effort toward hospice education programs that can be made available to the families, friends and neighbors of our community.

We offer a full range of clinical home health services for adults and children, including:
Skilled Nursing
Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy
Medical Social Work
Home Health Aides
Orthopedics
Balance and Fall Prevention
Cardiopulmonary
Diabetes Management
Community Care Program

Counties: Ada, Boise, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee, Payette and Washington.

Hospice care in home (in some cases free) for those with a terminal diagnosis

As southeast Idaho’s only non-profit hospice, Hospice of Eastern Idaho provides the highest quality comfort care and pain management. This includes: medical, social, spiritual and bereavement support for terminally-ill patients and their families regardless of ability to pay.

Ada County, Canyon County and Owyhee County

Provides home health care, personal care, hospice care, and pediatric care, including case management and nursing support, for medically and technology dependent children.

Provides information about home care and hospice including patient rights, selecting a provider, and legal issues. A locator search feature to help consumers find a local provider.

Patients who are seriously ill or frail

With emphasis on patients’ wishes about the care they receive, the National POLST Paradigm helps patients get the medical treatments they want, and avoid the medical treatments they do not want, when they are seriously ill or frail. It's about helping people live the way they want until they die. Web locator for state's sample forms. The POLST form is a medical order emergency personnel can follow whenever, and wherever, the patient has a medical emergency and can't speak for himself/herself.

Provides referral services for families to hospice and home care services for children.