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Palliative Care
Compassionate Care to Improve Your Quality of Life
When faced with a serious illness, terminal or long-term, many patients need a special kind of care – care that focuses on pain relief, symptom management and improving quality of life while surrounded by loved ones.
Our palliative care services do just that: We strive to alleviate your symptoms and prevent suffering as you undergo treatment for cancer and other life-limiting diseases.
How is Palliative Care Different From Hospice Care?
- The goals of palliative care are to relieve pain and distressing
symptoms of anyone with a severe disease.
- Ideally, palliative care should be started when you are diagnosed and continue as your disease progresses.
- Hospice care uses palliative care principles, but it is designed to care for people in the last six months of their lives.
Our Palliative Care Team and You
- Our interdisciplinary team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, nutritionists, music therapists, chaplains, massage therapists and psychologists. If you have cancer, we work side by side with your cancer team to help manage your symptoms.
- We’ll work with you and your family to provide meaningful physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual support as you face issues related to a serious illness. If you’re in the hospital, our on-call doctors are available to help with symptom management or end-of-life care. Once you leave the hospital, our outpatient clinic can provide you with follow-up care.
- We help you manage the symptoms and discomfort of life-limiting illnesses, including pain, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, depression, weight loss, constipation and anxiety.
If you are experiencing side effects, we help you weigh the benefits and burdens of treatment. If a disease no longer responds to treatment, we can help you with your goals and choices, including the option of hospice and other end-of-life issues.
A Holistic Approach
We are one of the few hospitals in the country offering such an extensive palliative care program. We will care for you through all stages of your journey.
We work with community providers to bring you complimentary, alternative therapies, like acupuncture; we give you a broad range of choices so that you can find what works for you. We also work closely with home care and hospice care organizations.
