Nursing Home Hospice Support in San Antonio
Hospice added to nursing home care, coordinated daily with your staff. Families and facility teams reach us on one line, any hour.
WHEN TO CALL
When a Resident Starts Needing More
Your staff usually sees it first. When they do, here's what adding AIP looks like.
SIGNS:
- A resident needs more comfort than the care plan anticipated.
- Hospital trips are starting to add up.
- The family is asking about comfort-focused care.
- You need a hospice partner who actually answers.
What We Provide
Care in Their Own Room
The same bed, the same window, the same hallway friends.
Daily Coordination With Your Nurses
Two teams, one plan, updated every visit.
Contracted Across San Antonio
AIP holds nursing home contracts area-wide, including with VA-contracted homes.
Fewer Hospital Trips
Comfort managed early helps keep them out of the hospital.
The Family, Fully Supported
Chaplain, social worker, plain-word updates, and support that continues after.
Spanish + English Care
Nurses and aides in the language your residents speak.
LOGISTICS
How AIP Works Inside Your Building
Nursing homes require hospice contracts, and AIP holds them across San Antonio, including with VA-contracted homes. If we're not yet contracted with yours, that conversation starts with one call.
Referrals come by fax or the referral line, and every one gets a response within thirty minutes, any hour of any night. When clinicals and consents are ready, admission completes the same day.
Inside the building, it's two teams on one plan. Our nurses and aides chart their visits, keep your nurses in the loop daily, and handle the hospice side, the symptom management, the medications, the equipment, without adding work to your floor.
The quiet result is the one your building gets measured on: comfort managed early means fewer transfers, and residents spending more of their days in their own home instead of a hospital hallway.
Families stay close the whole way: updates in plain words, a chaplain and social worker for the whole family, and the same AIP faces at the door, visit after visit. Families choosing between hospices can call the same line and ask anything.
WHAT FAMILIES TELL US
Families Who Were Exactly Where You Are
"AIP took great care of my father.
Mr. Saleem Barakat was extremely professional and was available 24 hours a day to answer my questions.
I am greatful to the entire AIP team."
Scott Rose
“I don’t even know how to start. My father was in a nursing home for about 6 month, his last days before he passed we went to the nursing home and noticed it was time to go home, he was ready to rest and I promised him he will be home when that happened."
Yesenia Miller
“My relationship with the caring team is very new as I have been sole caretaker since we both got out of hospital in February with great support from my daughter and lifelong friends, neighbors and large family."
Jessica Inocencio
40+ Years
Of family experience in senior care.
HALF
The patient load of a typical hospice nurse.
30 MIN
Our response goal on every new call, any hour, any night.
Any Hour
A live person on every call, nights and weekends.
WHO PICKS UP
The People Behind the Referral Line
JM Martin reviews every admission personally. Saleem Barakat answers the referral line himself, nights included. When you send a patient, you know exactly who has them.
COMMON QUESTIONS FROM REFERRING TEAMS
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers for the people who send patients. For anything else, the referral line answers any hour.
How fast does AIP respond to referrals?
AIP responds to every referral within 30 minutes, any hour of any night. Admission completes the same day when clinicals and consents are ready, and the first visit happens within one hour of signed consent.
How do I send a referral to AIP?
Referrals reach AIP through CarePort, by fax, or on the referral line. Send recent clinicals, a medication list, and the family's point of contact; AIP handles benefits verification, consents, and physician orders from there.
Can AIP provide GIP (inpatient) care?
Yes. AIP holds a standing GIP contract with the Methodist Hospital System, with credentialed physicians writing orders in-system, so inpatient-level hospice can begin without a contract scramble.
Is AIP VA-contracted?
Yes. AIP is one of a small number of VA-contracted hospices in San Antonio, and also holds contracts with VA-contracted nursing homes in the area.
How quickly can hospice care begin?
AIP says so, plainly. If a patient isn't yet hospice-appropriate, we'll tell you and the family what we're seeing, and when home health is the better fit for now, we'll say that too.
START WITH A CALL
The Next Step Is Just a Conversation
Call whenever you're ready, tonight included. Ask anything, and you'll talk to a person who knows hospice inside and out. By the time you hang up, you'll know your next step.