In-Home Palliative Care
Improving
Quality of Life
Do you, or someone you love, have a serious illness such as cancer, heart failure, lung disease
or kidney failure? If so, you may be sick of trips to the emergency room and unwanted hospital
stays to treat pain, shortness of breath or other symptoms.
Palliative care is different from hospice care because care starts at the initial diagnosis
of a serious illness, curative treatment or at the end of life.
The main goal of palliative care at-home is to improve the quality of life for patients to help you stay safely at home. Our compassionate interdisciplinary clinical team provides comprehensive palliative care for people with serious or chronic illnesses at home. We focus on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness with the goal of improving quality of life. It is based on your needs, not on the prognosis. It is appropriate at any stage in a serious illness, and it can be provided along with curative treatment.
Our Palliative Care At-Home program increases patient and family satisfaction, improves quality, and helps keep patients stable while avoiding unnecessary hospitalization. It will treat your pain and other symptoms. It will help you understand your disease and your treatment options. It will help you, and your family, cope with the everyday challenges of living with a serious illness.
What are the benefits of receiving in-home palliative care?
Maximum convenience: we come to your home based on your schedule
Remain as comfortable as possible in your own familiar surroundings
Avoid additional costs like hospital stays, medical fees and travel
Receive help for medical, emotional and spiritual support needs
Our In-Home Palliative Care brings the following support services to patients and their caregivers:
In-home and virtual visits from a nurse practitioner, physician and social worker
Medical evaluations, including monitoring for common symptoms like nausea, vomiting, pain, and anxiety
Prescribing medications to ease these symptoms
Additional medical applications like treating wounds and other medical needs
Patient focused interdisciplinary care planning
Coordination of care with member’s primary care provider (if it’s not us)
Complex medical decision making
Counseling and support for members and their family
Advance care planning
Interdisciplinary team conferencing
