To be eligible for Odyssey services, patients must agree to receive palliative care, that is, care that helps ease pain and discomforting symptoms, rather than seeking care that attempts to cure a disease. The attending physician and the Odyssey team physician must also concur that the patient’s estimated life expectancy is six months or less if the illness runs its normal course. However, patients that live longer than six months continue to be eligible for Odyssey’s hospice care if the doctor recertifies that the illness is terminal.
Odyssey’s care is available to terminally ill patients with a wide range of diagnoses including:
Pulmonary diseases
Kidney diseases
Parkinson’s disease
Neurological diseases
Metastasic cancer
Liver diseases
AIDS
Lou Gehrig’s (ALS) disease
Heart diseases
Alzheimer’s
Diabetes
Odyssey accepts patients without regard to gender, national origin, race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, age or place of residence.
To locate Odyssey service areas or request additional information, including admittance to Odyssey’s hospice care, please visit our Odyssey Locations page.
