Hospice and palliative care providers aim to promote comfort, dignity, and quality of life for their patients with advanced or life-limiting illnesses. Keeping the patient in a home or home-like environment without undue disruption or undue stress is part of this care.
Transporting palliative or hospice patients to a hospital or imaging center is time-consuming, physically and emotionally taxing, and usually inconsistent with the dignity and care of the hospice program. Leaving the home environment- even for necessary diagnostic imaging-is often more undesirable than the procedure.
Mobile Images offers mobile ultrasounds and X-rays for hospice and palliative care services. Services can be provided either in a patient‘s home, in assisted living settings, or in hospice facilities.
By bringing imaging services directly to the patient, providers can obtain the necessary clinical information without the need for uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or stressful changes to routine or environment.
Hospice and palliative care team members are concerned not only with clinical needs but also with the comfort and dignity of each patient.
Issues that commonly arise are:
All of these issues can lead to conventional imaging being impractical or inconsistent with home care goals. Mobile imaging allows providers access to essential diagnostics without threatening the patient experience.
Mobile Images provides mobile diagnostic imaging that compliments the provided services of hospice and palliative care.
Our services include:
Mobile digital X-ray units make it possible to take images in a location that is convenient for the patient.
Ultrasound imaging can be performed locally in order to aid clinical decisions.
Exams are often done in the patient's bed or chair in order to avoid excessive movement.
Imaging is readily available to meet changing needs of care.
Images are examined by radiologists, with reports provided back to the ordering provider in a timely fashion.
Our approach prioritizes both clinical accuracy and patient-centered care.
A physician, or authorized provider, administers the order for an imaging exam.
A licensed technologist can provide portable imaging equipment on-site.
The imaging exam is completed on site, frequently in the patient's room.
Images are encrypted and securely sent to a radiologist to interpret.
The diagnostic report is sent to the provider for treatment planning.
Mobile imaging supports both clinical and emotional care goals.
Benefits include:
For hospice providers, mobile imaging helps ensure that diagnostics do not interfere with the patient’s quality of life.
Mobile Images has been providing diagnostic imaging services to sensitive care sites and settings for over 20 years.
Hospice and palliative care specialists turn to Mobile Images for:
We have learned that compassion, communication, and respect are critical in any situation.
If accurate, on-call imaging is essential to your hospice or palliative care providers, Mobile Images can enhance your care team.
Ask for mobile imaging to be brought to patients in a familiar setting, when they need it most.
