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What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is specialized medical care that focuses on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of a serious or chronic illness. It also can help you cope with side effects from medical treatments. The availability of palliative care does not depend on whether your condition can be cured.
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Palliative care strives to provide comfort and improve quality of life for people and their families. This form of care is offered along with other treatments a person may be receiving such as chemotherapy, radiation, parencentesis, blood tranfusioins, dialysis, and other specialized medical care. You may also continue home health while receiving Palliative care.
Palliative care is provided by a team of healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, nutritionist, social workers, therapists, chaplains and other trained specialists. The team works with you, your family and your other providers to add an extra layer of support and relief that complements your ongoing care. Palliative Care Consultants will work alongside your primary care doctor to ensure a high quality continuity of care.
Palliative Care Consultants Offer
Palliative Care Plan
Since it's based on individual needs, palliative care can be quite different from one person to the next. A care plan might involve one or more of the following goals:
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Alleviating symptoms, including side effects of treatment
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Improving understanding of illness and its progression
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Identifying and addressing practical and spiritual needs
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Helping to cope with feelings and changes related to illness
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Assist in understanding treatment options and coordinating care
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Identifying and accessing additional resources to provide support
Guaranteed Provisions
for Our Patients
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Specialized Care to people with serious illness
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Physician /NP visits in their home
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Symptom management
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Access to On-Call Services
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Referrals to other health care providers
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Individual Comprehensive Car3e
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Management of complex & specific pain and symptoms, medications, and care coordination in-home or through telehealth
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Provide disease-specific education for patients and families
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Planning and Advance Directive Options
BENEFITS
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PALLIATIVE CARE
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Patients may maintain current treatment that may cure their illness.
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Provides pain and symptom management
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Improves Quality of Life
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Makes referrals as needed for specialized therapies, doctors, and home health as needed.
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May order DME and supplies
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Palliative Care NP will visit you wherever you call home, whether this is a traditional house, nursing home, assisted living, outpatient clinic, hospital or residential facility.
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Palliative Care will work with your primary care doctor visits by a Nurse Practitioner happen wherever you call home. No need to drive to an appointment.
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Patients may continue receiving Home Health and Palliative Care at the same time.
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A Nurse Practitioner will support your care during transitions or when you are unable to go to a regular physician.
LET'S GET SPECIFIC
HOW CAN PALLIATIVE CARE HELP WITH THE FOLLOWING:
Palliative care focuses on the symptoms and stress of the disease and the treatment. It treats a wide range of issues that can include pain, depression, anxiety, fatigue, shortness of breath, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite and difficulty sleeping.
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Palliative care teams improve your quality of life. They do this by helping you tolerate medical treatments, helping you match your goals to your treatment choices, supporting your family and more.
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