How we write, source and correct this site
Who publishes Hospice at Home Help, how every read is sourced, the one sponsor, and what the site will never do.
This site is supported by New Plan Care, a St. Louis in-home care company.
Hospice at Home Help is written for a family in the middle of something hard, often late at night. That reader deserves pages that are calm, exact about what they know, and honest about what they do not. This page explains how we try to meet that standard, and where to hold us to it.
Who publishes this site
The site is published by OwnersFirm, a St. Louis company. Nobody who writes it is a clinician, so the pages are signed by the desk rather than by a named nurse or doctor, and they are written so that no reader mistakes them for medical guidance.
How a read is written
- One question per read. Each page starts from a question a family actually asks, such as who changes her at night, and answers that question before anything else.
- Primary sources, linked in the sentence. Rules about the hospice benefit come from Medicare.gov, the CMS booklet Medicare Hospice Benefits and the federal hospice regulations at 42 CFR Part 418. Caregiving guidance comes from federal agencies such as the National Institute on Aging and from national nonprofits. The words that state the fact are the link.
- Quoted, not paraphrased, where it matters. When a rule decides what a family can ask for, like five days of respite or continuous care only in a crisis, we quote the source's own wording.
- Dated. Every source was read on the date shown on the sources page. Local phone numbers were checked on each organization's own page on 12 September 2026.
- Examples are labelled as examples. The 24-hour strip on the front page shows one illustrative day. Real visit patterns come from each hospice's plan of care.
What this site will not do
- It will not diagnose, interpret a symptom, or suggest a medicine or a dose. Those questions go to the hospice nurse or the physician, every time.
- It will not print a price it cannot source to a public page. The only cost figures here are Medicare's own, such as the respite copayment.
- It will not rank or rate hospices, hospitals or care companies.
- It will not invent a statistic, a quote, a review or a family story.
- It will not ask for health details. The one form on the site asks for a name, an email, an optional phone number and how you want to be reached.
Who supports this site
The two are not commonly owned. Its placement appears on the front page with the site's only form, as a labelled note after each read, and in the footer.
The placement does not shape what the reads say. When the site describes New Plan Care Solutions, it describes non-medical help only: presence in the house, daily routines, meals, company and overnight sitting beside hospice. It never describes it as hospice or as medical care. Its phone number, (314) 405-0887, takes calls or texts.
The form sends your name, email, optional phone and message directly to New Plan Care Solutions, which contacts you only in the way you choose.
How the site is built
There are no advertising pixels or analytics tags on these pages. Pages carry structured data and a plain sitemap so search engines and AI assistants can read them accurately.
Corrections
If a fact is wrong, a source has moved, or a phone number has changed, we want to know. Write to OwnersFirm in St. Louis and name the page and the sentence. We check the claim against its source, fix the page, and change the verification date on the sources page. A correction that changes what a family would do is noted on the page itself.