Determining Eligibility Scales:
- FAST Scale: Dementia/Alzheimer’s
- Scales: New York Heart Association (NYHA), Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) & Karnofsky Performance Status Scale
Hospice Clinical Parameters:
- Adult Failure to Thrive (AFTT)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Brain Neoplasm
- Breast Cancer
- Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
- Colorectal Cancer
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Endstage Cardiovascular
- General Diagnosis: All other life limiting diagnoses
- General Neoplasms
- Head/Neck Cancer
- Leukemia
- Liver Cancer
- Liver Disease
- Lung Cancer
- Lung Disease
- Melanoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Neuroblastoma
- Ovarian Uterine Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pediatric Hodgkins Disease
- Pediatric Leukemia
- Pediatric Werdnig-Hoffman
- Prostate Cancer
- Renal Disease
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Stomach Cancer
- Trauma – Head Injury
- Trisomy 13
- Trisomy 18