FAQs
What do your services cost?
Peaceful Crossings offers up to a 30-minute free consultation along with various, customizable end-of-life doula services in Durham on a package basis based on a $75/hour rate. Please see our individual offerings pages for pricing. Clients may choose to combine packages. We also provide sliding scale fees to those in need. Peaceful Crossings upholds the highest moral and ethical standards of the EOL doula practice, set forth in the NEDA Code of Ethics.
What are your qualifications?
In addition to experience as local hospice volunteers, we completed training through the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA), which is recognized by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). For additional qualifications and certifications, visit our About us page. We are always open to inquiries from, and partnerships with, Durham hospice programs.
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Do I need to have a terminal illness to work with you?
No. Our death packet package is for anyone who wants to gather the right paperwork together at any time. Grief reprocessing is solely for those who have recently lost a loved one. If you have a chronic illness, all of our services are relevant.
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What areas do you serve?
We provide in-person and virtual end-of-life doula services to residents of the greater Durham and Chapel Hill areas in North Carolina.
Are your services covered by Medicare?
End-of-life doula services are not currently covered under the medicare model -- but various organizations are working to make this happen.
Do I need to sign up for all three core services?
No. we work with patients on whatever aspects of the doula service model they choose.
Do you provide companion or home health care services?
No, but we have a robust referral resource to help families in the Durham and Raleigh area prepare for end-of-life needs outside of doula services.
How is an end-of-life doula different from hospice?
End-of-life doulas do not offer medical services; we are a complement to hospice. Social workers, chaplains, nurses--
all the great people who make up hospice teams--have many other patients and are time-limited with each patient. A doula will spend all the time you need answering questions in their purview, educating families on how to deliver care, assisting with things like legacy projects and talking through advance directives, helping at the bedside, and so on. Hospice teams do not have the ability to provide that amount of individual attention to each patient. Because we are independent from hospice, we can offer guidance and input that is not influenced by an employer and are not limited by things like Medicare requirements.