Patient Guide

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

Who Provides Palliative Care? Your physician will continue to care for you with the assistance of a teamof professionally trained health care professionals which includes a physician, advanced practice nurse, nurse liaison, medical social worker, pharmacist, and spiritual care provider. How does Palliative Care help patients and their families? Palliative Care offers medical, emotional, spiritual, andpsychosocial support. It provides the patient with pain relief and management of symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, constipation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, depression and difficulty sleeping. Palliative Care also provides the patient and family with an understanding of the illness, options for care, and guidance for difficult medical decisions. It offers spiritual care and social support for patients and family members who have unresolved psychosocial and spiritual issues. The Palliative Care team will work with your physician and other people involved in your care to ease the transition between health care settings and ensure that you or your loved one has the opportunity for quality living.

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