Our palliative care team can help alleviate severe symptoms when facing serious illnesses, including these and others:
- Cancer
- Kidney failure
- Heart failure
- Parkinson’s disease
- Liver failure
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Respiratory conditions, including COPD
- ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), MS (multiple sclerosis) and other central-nervous system conditions
We offer evidence-based approaches to symptom management, and we work with your provider to ensure you’re at the center of all our approaches. Patients can find improvements with several symptoms, such as:
- Pain
- Trouble with breathing
- Sleep issues and discomfort
- Constipation and other digestive irregularities
- Appetite and digestion
- Numbness
Our care team helps you express your preferences. We can use your living will or medical power-of-attorney paperwork to make sure your intentions are clear to all parties. Creating these documents and agreements, which usually begins with a family conversation, can relieve burdens.
Palliative care leads to many questions and obstacles. Our team is well-versed, and we can use our experience to help you with:
- Care coordination among all of your health care providers
- Communication assistance about your illness and treatment choices
- Emotional and spiritual support for you and your family
- Expert treatment for your pain and symptoms
- Assistance with home health care solutions
- A hospitalist team that provides identical services to our hospitalized patients
