Going Home on Hospice from Corewell Health Dearborn: A Family Guide
Updated September 2026. Written and reviewed by the Lily Hospice clinical team.
If hospice has been mentioned at Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital on Oakwood Boulevard, your family may choose any Medicare-certified hospice. A hospice nurse evaluates, a bed and comfort medications are delivered, and many patients are home within a day or two. Interpreters can be arranged for Arabic-speaking families.
Lily Hospice is an independent hospice and is not affiliated with Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital.
Many families still know it as Beaumont Dearborn. Medicare’s hospital data still lists it as Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn. Its current name is Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital. It is at 18101 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124, and the main number is 313.593.7000. Corewell Health describes it as a full-service teaching hospital. Its services include cancer care, heart and vascular care, neurosciences and orthopedics.
Family decisions, together
In many Dearborn households, a hospital decision is a family decision. Sons, daughters, in-laws and sometimes a faith leader all want to hear the same thing. It is fine to ask the hospital team for a family meeting before anyone signs anything. It is also fine to ask for a professional interpreter, so that no one relies on a grandchild to translate hard news.
At the meeting, a doctor or palliative care clinician may explain that treatment is no longer helping. A case manager or social worker then plans the discharge and sends the hospice referral.
The choice of hospice is yours
You may be handed a list, or the team may suggest a hospice. Medicare lets the patient choose any Medicare-certified hospice that serves their home. Families can take time to compare, even if only a few hours. Our metro Detroit hospice directory lists every hospice serving Wayne County. The how to choose a hospice guide gives questions to ask each one, including about language and faith.
How the move home works
The referral. Tell the case manager which hospice you chose, or call the hospice yourself.
The evaluation. A hospice nurse reviews the records and meets the family, often at the bedside. The attending physician and the hospice medical director confirm eligibility. The family signs consents when ready.
The equipment. A hospital bed, a commode, oxygen if needed and supplies are delivered to the house. The aim is to have them in place before the patient arrives, or the same day.
The medications. Comfort medications for pain, breathing and anxiety are delivered, with instructions the whole family can follow.
The first visit. A hospice nurse comes soon after the patient is home. The family gets one phone number that reaches a nurse at any hour.
See how fast hospice can start and what happens on the first visit.
Questions to ask before discharge
- Can we have a family meeting with an interpreter before discharge?
- Which medications continue, and which stop?
- Does the patient need oxygen for the ride home?
- Who is arranging transport, and when?
- Can the hospice aide be the same gender as the patient? (Ask the hospice. Lily honors this request whenever possible.)
- Is a do-not-resuscitate order signed for home, if that is the family’s wish?
Going home in Dearborn and west Wayne County
The hospital sits in the middle of Dearborn. Patients go home to east and west Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Allen Park, Melvindale, Taylor and southwest Detroit. Others head west to Livonia, Westland or Canton.
Lily serves all of these communities. See hospice for Arabic-speaking families in Dearborn, Wayne County, Detroit, Livonia and Canton.
A nursing facility or assisted living instead
Sometimes a house is not the right place, even with a large family. A patient may go from Dearborn to a nursing facility or an assisted living community. Hospice can start there on the day of arrival. The facility gives daily care, and the hospice handles comfort, medications, equipment and family support. Room and board in a facility is not paid by the Medicare hospice benefit. How hospice works in a facility.
How Lily works with Dearborn families
Lily Hospice is family-owned, Medicare-certified and ACHC-accredited. If your family’s first language is Arabic, tell us when you call. We arrange a professional interpreter at no cost to you. A real person answers at any hour. Evaluation is usually within 24 hours, and admission is often the same day. That includes weekends. How to start hospice this weekend.
Our chaplain can work with your imam, priest or pastor, or step back if the family prefers.
Common questions
Can we choose a hospice that offers Arabic interpreters?
Yes. You may choose any Medicare-certified hospice that serves your home. Ask each hospice how it handles interpretation. Lily arranges a professional Arabic interpreter at no cost.
Is Corewell Health Dearborn the same hospital as Beaumont Dearborn?
Yes. It is at the same address on Oakwood Boulevard. Corewell Health now calls it Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital.
Can the whole family be there for the hospice evaluation?
Yes. The hospice nurse can meet with as many family members as you wish, at the bedside or at home.
How soon can my father come home on hospice?
Often within one or two days, and sometimes the same day. The physician order, equipment and transport are the usual time drivers.
Does Medicare pay for hospice after leaving Corewell Health Dearborn?
Yes. Medicare Part A covers the hospice team, medications, equipment and supplies related to the terminal illness. What Medicare covers in Michigan.
Is Lily Hospice part of Corewell Health?
No. Lily is an independent, family-owned hospice based in Troy.
Hospice isn’t giving up. It’s showing up.
Call (248) 955-5100. A real person answers, 24 hours a day. Also see our general guide, going home on hospice from the hospital.