HOW TO QUALIFY

QUALIFICATIONS

To live at East Mountain House, guests must:

  • Be enrolled with Visiting Nurses and Hospice of Litchfield County (VNHLC)
  • Have a medical diagnosis of three months or less to live
  • Medical insights on what to expect at the end of life
  • have a signed MOLST form indicating Do No Resuscitate
  • have a designated health care proxy and financial power of attorney
  • have a hospice plan for continued care in case of discharge

Additional admission considerations include:

  • must be free of infectious or contagious diseases/conditions
  • have no IVs or in-use feeding tubes
  • Medical insights on what to expect at the end of life
  • Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and
    only if a secondary diagnosis
  • mental health issues will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and only if there
    are no aggressive or violent behaviors

Payment considerations

We operate on a pay-as-you-can, pay-it-forward model. The daily cost of caring for our residents is $600 per day, per resident. We invite our guests, and their family and friends, to contribute more or less as their resources allow.

We rely on the generosity of individuals, local businesses, grant programs, and foundations to support our mission.