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Our Mission Statement
Partners in Palliative and Home Care emphasizes quality of life and life-closure issues. We manage disease processes so as to minimize suffering, and help patients and their families adjust to the changes brought on by advanced illnesses. We promote comfort and support for patients and their families while dealing with the unique challenges of a life-limiting illness.
What Is Palliative Care?
- Palliative care aims to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for patients with advanced illness.
- Palliative care recognizes the importance of coordinating the services of a wide variety of community agencies.
- Palliative care recognizes the importance of providing support to families and care givers of patients with life-limiting illness.
- Palliative care is provided by an interdisciplinary team and offered in conjunction with all other appropriate forms of medical treatment.
- The resources and members of the palliative care team include: medical and nursing specialists, social workers, clergy, and others spiritual and psychological counselors, physical and occupational therapists.
- Pain and symptom control is integrated into all stages of treatment.
- The palliative care approach decreases length of hospital and ICU stays and eases patient transitions between care settings. This results in increased patient and family satisfaction and compliance with hospital care quality standards.
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We make house calls 24/7!
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