Palliative care at home during any stage of serious illness.
Rx for better quality of life
Would you write an Rx for a treatment to reduce pain and other symptoms, keep patients out of the ER and reduce readmissions – a treatment with clinically proven results – one that gives you better control of patient outcomes while reducing stress on the patient and their family?
Palliative care is different than hospice care
Supportive care focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain and stress of a serious illness – whatever the diagnosis. Patients may be receiving active care, or not be ready or appropriate for hospice. It is compatible with all other medical treatments and only available in the home, not in skilled facilities. See Criteria for Admissions.
As your care partner, we’ll
- Improve patient compliance with your plan of treatment
- Help you manage symptoms
- Assist with difficult conversations
- Educate patients and families on disease process, advance directives and making decisions
- Assist you, patient and family with transitions in care, from outpatient to hospital, palliative medicine to hospice, home to long-term care and more
- Provide social workers and chaplains for emotional and spiritual support
- Provide consults with our expert palliative medicine providers
- Offer services beyond the scope of Medicare/Medicaid and insurance, such as social worker, chaplain, volunteer assistance with home needs and much more
Involving palliative care early in a diagnosis provides real benefits to patients.
Our experience and clinical studies have shown us that beginning supportive care early has a positive impact. Patients feel better, families cope better and patients may live longer.
Comfort at home during serious illness
Since 1980, our nonprofit, community-based organization has delivered quality, compassionate hospice care. And, for over 10 years we’ve offered palliative care in the home, bringing comfort to patients earlier in the disease process. With the same type of expert inter-disciplinary team (link) as hospice, we include nurses, therapists, social workers, chaplains and dedicated volunteers.
