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from the Villa Assisted Living Care Team

Profile on Devoted Healthcare & Hospice Services

Families often contact Villa Assisted Living looking for senior living options, but then pose questions to Directors Mary Martinez (Villa South) and Patricia Torres (Villa Northwest) beyond assisted living and memory care. Such questions might include How do I establish Power of Attorney, How to Sell My Home, How to access Medicaid for Assisted Living. For this reason, Villa has developed its Senior Resource Guide to be a community resource for families on a variety of senior-related questions. Today’s focus on Hospice Care is intended to de-mystify hospice care and the benefits it can provide to families and their senior loved ones.

Unique Hospice Model

Established in 2019 as an avenue to provide a unique model of care by Corpus Christi native, Jeff Hunt, Devoted Healthcare & Hospice Services, LLC stands as one of few locally owned and operated agencies in the Coastal Bend Region. Jeff’s vision of becoming part of the community served is maintained by the various insurances accepted and the copious programs offered to the client base. Through a partnership with the Dementia Friendly Corpus Christi Initiative (DFCCI), Devoted maintains the status as the only Dementia Friendly Hospice Care provider in the Coastal Bend. This training ensures that all staff are fully equipped and ready to care for and aid the caregivers of those living with brain change. Devoted is also a member of the We Honor Veterans program which ensures staff is trained in caring and advocating for their Veteran patient base.

The Benefits of Hospice Services

This family of compassionate and hard-working individuals has been together since the beginning of their incorporation, aside from the incredible individuals they have added to accommodate the growth seen. The marketing team, including Liz Barrios and Priscilla Olachia, deeply enjoy educating the community that Hospice is not only for those in the last couple of days or weeks of their life but for those with a qualifying life-limiting illness, such as dementia, that focuses on quality of life versus quantity of days.

Signifiers that a more acute level of care is needed could be frequent falls, reoccurring infections (like urinary tract infections, pneumonia, sepsis, etc.), unexplained weight loss, frequent ER visits or hospitalizations, increased generalized weakness, shortness of breath and/or increased dependence of aide to complete daily activities needed to live independently.

Additionally, Devoted Healthcare and Hospice Services employs a proactive wound care program, respiratory therapy services, and a crisis-care program provided by their clinical staff.

Devoted Representatives Serve the Villas

Liz and Priscilla especially enjoy the special relationships developed with Villa properties through supporting resident enrichment activities and joint community outreach efforts. Together with their incredible management team, caring staff members, and humble owners Devoted and Villa proudly offer the ability for individuals to safely and healthily age in place. Villa residents in memory care in particular benefit from being on hospice and the extra support hospice companies like Devoted provide. Since the start of care, Devoted has had the enjoyment of working with and serving the Villa Communities. In turn Villa South and Villa Northwest residents have benefitted from the extra services provided and supportive culture.

How to Find Devoted

For more information or to ask questions about qualifications for this advanced level of care, please do not hesitate to reach out to Devoted Healthcare and Hospice Services. The office staff may be reached 24/7 at (833)338-6831 and located on Facebook and Instagram by using the @devotedhhs. You may find plenty of resources and guides on their website. They are additionally featured on the AARP and Alzheimer’s Association Community Resource Finder, and Villa Senior Services in Corpus Christi guide,.

Senior Resource Guide Corpus Christi

Villa has developed a Senior Resource Guide to be a community resource for families on questions beyond assisted living.

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Senior Resource Guide