(877) 258-7129Hospice and palliative care
Hospice care in San Bernardino and the Inland Empire
Comfort, dignity and support, wherever home is. Beta Hospice brings a nurse, a doctor, aides, a social worker and a chaplain to the person’s home, care home or facility in San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange counties. You can call before you have every answer.
Licensed, Medicare certified, and easy to verify.
Licensed by CDPHLicense 550004949
Medicare certified since 2020CCN A11527
AccreditedAccredited by Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)
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I am looking for care for someone
Plain answers about what hospice and palliative care are, when to ask, who pays, and what happens when you call.
I am a healthcare professional
Refer by phone, fax or form. Eligibility guidelines by diagnosis, and pages for physicians, discharge planners and assisted-living operators.
What we do
Hospice care
Comfort-focused care from a full team when an illness can no longer be cured. At home, in a care home, or in a facility.
About hospice care
Palliative care
Extra support for symptoms and stress that can start earlier, while treatment for the illness continues.
About palliative care
Grief support
Support for family before and after a death, for 13 months after a death.
About grief support
Is it time to ask about hospice?
It may be, when a serious illness is getting worse and comfort has become the priority. These are signs to talk with a doctor or a hospice nurse.
- Frequent hospital or emergency visits in the last few months
- More time in bed or a chair, and more help needed with daily care
- Weight loss, less appetite, or trouble swallowing
- Pain, breathlessness or other symptoms that are harder to control
What happens when you call
- Step 1
Tell us what is happening
Share the general situation and where the person is. You do not need every detail before calling.
- Step 2
Understand the options
A member of the hospice team explains what care would look like for this person and arranges the clinical and coverage review.
- Step 3
Plan together
If the person chooses hospice and the requirements are met, the person, the family and the hospice team write the plan of care together.
Who pays for hospice?
Medicare covers hospice care related to the terminal illness. Under Medicare, most people pay nothing for hospice care itself. There can be a copay of up to $5 per prescription for symptom medicines and 5% of the Medicare amount for inpatient respite care. Medicare does not pay room and board where you live. Medi-Cal covers hospice too.
We check your benefits and tell you your costs before care starts.
Where we serve
Care comes to the person: a private home, a family member’s home, an assisted living or board-and-care home, or a nursing facility.
San Bernardino County
Our home office. Inland Empire communities from Ontario to Redlands and the High Desert.
Riverside County
Hospice and palliative care at home and in care facilities.
Los Angeles County
Hospice and palliative care at home and in care facilities.
Orange County
Hospice and palliative care at home and in care facilities.
Ventura County
Call to check your area.
Cities: San Bernardino, Fontana, Rialto, Redlands and Loma Linda, Rancho Cucamonga and Ontario, Riverside, Moreno Valley
Guides families read before they call
Plain answers to the questions people search for, written by our care team and reviewed by our medical director.
Questions people ask
One page per question people ask about hospice: the two conditions to start, what hospice does not say, the 80/20 and 36 month rules, what Medicare pays.
24-hour care at home
What hospice does and does not provide at every hour: scheduled visits, a nurse by phone at any hour, continuous home care in a crisis, and respite.
The comfort kit
What the hospice comfort kit is, which symptoms its medicines treat, the morphine question answered calmly, who to call first, and safe disposal.
The final days
A calm guide to the changes families see in the last weeks, days and hours of life, what the hospice team does for each one, and when to call the nurse.
When someone dies at home
Step by step: there is no emergency, call the hospice and not 911, what the nurse does, medicines and equipment, the death certificate and grief support.
The first week of hospice
What happens in the first week of hospice: the admission visit, what you sign, equipment delivery, comfort medicines, first team visits and night calls.
How to choose a hospice
A printable list of questions to ask any hospice, how to read Medicare Care Compare honestly, for-profit and nonprofit explained, and red flags to avoid.
Medi-Cal and hospice
Medi-Cal covers hospice. How it works with Medicare, managed care plans, nursing facility room and board and share of cost, plus Medi-Cal palliative care.
Hospice vs palliative care
Palliative care adds comfort-focused support while treatment continues. Hospice is comfort care when life expectancy is six months or less. Compare them.
Veterans
How a veteran in San Bernardino or Riverside County gets hospice at home through Medicare, VA health care or both, with the VA Loma Linda connection.
How Beta compares
Every Medicare-certified hospice offers the same benefit by law. Compare what differs: license, service area, who answers at night, languages, facilities.
Grief groups in the Inland Empire
Community grief groups in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, free of charge or open to the public: who they are for, where they meet and how to join.
The people behind Beta
A local team you can name, reach and verify. Clinical pages on this site are reviewed by our medical director before they are published.
Oscar Chien, MDMedical Director
Gina Allain, RNAdministrator and Director of Patient Care Services
You do not have to decide alone.
Call (877) 258-7129 any time, or leave your number and someone from Beta's hospice team will call you. No decision is needed to call. Most families start with a question.
Only a hospice doctor, together with the person’s own doctor, can confirm hospice eligibility. A website cannot.
- A nurse answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- You can stop hospice at any time
- You have the right to choose your hospice