What Is Palliative And Supportive Care?
Palliative and Supportive Care is an extra layer of support provided by physicians and clinicians to help care for a seriously ill patient.
What Is It We Focus On?
Palliative and Supportive Care is an extra layer of support provided by physicians and clinicians to help care for a seriously ill patient.
Focus on your heart and soul to improve your whole well being
Because that’s what really matters
Supporting you based on your needs
We prioritize symptom management tailored to each individual’s needs.
A guiding light helping you navigate your medical options
Addressing all aspects of health.
Palliative Care and Supportive Care is Provided by Physicians and Nurse Practitioners.
Palliative care is NOT the same as Home Health (which is nursing care at home). Palliative Care clinicians (physicians and nurse practitioners) focus on medically evaluating patients to help control symptoms and reduce disease burden. This includes identifying root causes of discomfort and addressing these issues with medication adjustments and treatment referrals.
Services Provided
We provide outpatient palliative and supportive care. We prioritize symptom management tailored to each individual’s needs.
Medication Review and Adjustment
Clinicians review your medications and adjust them as needed to address your needs.
Symptom Control
Providers help control symptoms including trouble with sleeping, breathing, swelling, itching, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, confusion, anxiety, etc.
Pain Control
Palliative Care clinicians are expert at pain management. If you have pain due to an underlying serious illness, we can help.
Care Coordination
Bridging gaps in patient care.
Services Provided:
- Professional Palliative and Supportive Care
- Palliative Clinic
- Nursing Home Visits – must meet criteria
- Assisted Living Visits – must meet criteria
- Home Visits – must meet criteria
- Hospital Visits – at our participating hospitals
- LTACH Visits – at our participating hospitals
- Hospice Assistance with difficult to manage symptoms.
Our goal is to get you back to living your life and not letting your disease control you.
Palliative care clinicians have the authority to refer to other services as needed to help get you the help you need.
We cannot change the situation life has thrown us into.
We can stop hiding from what is happening and talk about it clearly so everyone is on the same page. We take the time to discuss what your illness means and what we can and cannot do. Knowing the limits of what is possible, helps clinicians, families and patients find a path forward.
We will never shy away from this type of conversation nor will we ever abandon you. We are all in this together. God has a plan. We just don’t understand it at times.
a guiding light in a complex environment
Providing clarity in a complex healthcare landscape
Not sure what to do? Give us a call. Let us walk through what we can do for you. Have a lot of medical problems, not sure what it means? Have one of our clinicians sit down and review your medical records with you and explain what it all means.
