For hospice and home health
For Hospice, Palliative Care and Home Health Teams
Your patient can stay on hospice, but the family can no longer give care at home around the clock. Hamssa spent years in hospice, palliative care and home health before she started placing families, and she helps them find a licensed care home in the South Bay that is able to accept a hospice resident.
For professionals
How a referral works
Call or send a note
Share your own name and number and a general picture of the situation. Hamssa calls you back for details and, with the family's permission, contacts them.
Homes that can take hospice
An assisted living or board and care home needs a hospice waiver from the state to keep a resident on hospice. Hamssa helps the family ask each home about it before touring.
Your team stays the hospice
The family chooses the home, the hospice keeps providing hospice care there, and Hamssa keeps the family moving on the home's admission paperwork.
Where Hamssa fits
- Patients on hospice whose family caregiver is exhausted or whose home cannot be made safe.
- Palliative and home health patients who now need someone present day and night.
- Families who need a respite stay while they decide, where a home has an opening.
- Families who speak Arabic or Spanish at home: Hamssa speaks both, and English.
“She took care of everything from A-to-Z. I didn’t have to do a thing she was even there to see my mom after my mom was sent to her new home.”
“She guided us through the entire process — from discussing our monthly budget, contacting facilities, and scheduling appointments, to accompanying us on tours and negotiating with the owners.”
Why the home matters as much as the hospice
California lets a residential care facility for the elderly keep a resident who is on hospice only when the home has a hospice waiver and works with the hospice under a written plan. Not every licensed home has one, and a home with a waiver still decides case by case. Our family guide to hospice in assisted living explains the rules.
Hamssa helps the family ask those questions before touring: whether the home holds a waiver, whether it has accepted residents with similar needs, who is awake at night, and how the staff work with an outside hospice. She refers only to licensed homes she has toured herself, and she checks each home's public licensing record for citations and complaints.
What Hamssa does not do
She does not provide care, does not place patients in skilled nursing facilities, and does not enroll anyone in a program. Medical decisions stay with the hospice team and the family. Her help is free for families; homes may pay her a referral fee after a move-in, and she still suggests a home that pays no fee when it is the right fit. See how placement is paid for.
Common questions
Can a patient stay on our hospice after moving to a board and care home?
Yes, when the home has a hospice waiver and agrees to work with your hospice. Ask the home to confirm its waiver and whether it already works with your agency; Hamssa helps families ask.
What should we send through the form?
Only your own name, number and a general note. Hamssa calls you for the details. Please keep diagnoses and other health information out of the web form.
Will you tell us when the patient has moved?
With the family's permission, yes. Hamssa can tell you which home was chosen and when the move is planned, so your team can update its plan of care.
Which areas does Hamssa cover?
Torrance, Redondo Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills Estates, San Pedro, Harbor City, Carson, Gardena and Long Beach.
Send a referral
Refer a patient or client
Give your own name and direct number and a general note. Hamssa will call you for the details. Keep identifying health information out of this form.
Quicker by phone: (310) 594-0694
No cost to families
A placement specialist who knows hospice
Phone, text or WhatsApp. Hamssa answers personally, and her help is free for patients and families.