Healthcare Providers

Who to call

To refer a patient or determine eligibility, please call the Horizon Admissions Team at 312-733-8900.

Horizon is Medicare/Medicaid-certified.
Horizon accepts insurance.
Horizon serves all, regardless of ability to pay.
Horizon is Joint Commission-accredited.
Horizon is a Not-for-Profit, 501(c)3 organization.

Our service area:

Cook, Will, Lake, and DuPage Counties

You have a choice when you work with Horizon

• You can remain involved in your patient's care as primary consultant,
• You can turn the care of your patient over to Horizon, or
• You can remain in your role as primary care physician.

In any case, Horizon pledges to keep you informed as to your patient's health status.

What Hospice can do for your patients

Hospice ensures the best possible quality of life for patients with a likely prognosis of six months or less. These patients seek comfort and relief of pain and symptoms. They choose to forego further curative treatments for their hospice diagnosis. However, they can still maintain hospice enrollment while being treated for other issues unrelated to their hospice diagnosis (e.g. antibiotics for infection, treatment for hip fracture). Hospice also provides emotional and spiritual support for the patient's loved ones.

The Hospice Team

• Visits the patient wherever he or she may live.
• Is on call 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week.
• Monitors the patient's physical and emotional comfort and quality of life, prescribing pain-relieving treatments and medications.
• Provides medical equipment, such as hospital beds.
• Provides respite care for up to five days and inpatient care for symptom management.
• Provides comfort and companionship for the patient, family members and other loved ones.
• Assists family members in communicating with one another and in decision-making.
• Offers bereavement counseling and grief support groups.

What Palliative Care can do for your patients

Palliative Care ensures the best possible quality of life for patients with complex and/or life-threatening conditions whose prognosis is likely to extend beyond six months. The aim of palliative care is to relieve physical, emotional and spiritual pain and symptoms and to maintain or enhance the patient's quality of life. Palliative care patients may continue to receive chemotherapy, radiation therapy or other aggressive, curative treatments for their disease. In fact, palliative care can be useful in alleviating the side effects and stresses associated with aggressive treatments, helping the patient recover more quickly and comfortably. A major benefit of palliative care is the ability of the team to monitor symptoms and adjust treatment plans, thereby preventing health crises that may lead to costly and disruptive emergency department visits or hospitalizations.

The Palliative Care Team

• Visits the patient wherever he or she may live.
• Incorporates the patient's wishes into a complete treatment plan.
• Relieves physical and emotional symptoms.
• Helps resolve practical and ethical issues regarding patient care.
• Coordinates patient care between sites of care, such as hospital and home, or hospital and nursing home.
• Assists in care planning.