Palliative Care

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with serious illness. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the stress and symptoms often experienced with advance diseases. Palliative care is provided while getting curative medical treatments, at any age and at any stage of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. 

The Washington Health Palliative Care Team

At Washington Health palliative care is provided by a specially trained multidisciplinary team of professionals. Our palliative care service [add-not bold] includes physicians, nurse practitioners, social worker and spiritual care along with other specialist. Our team works closely with a patient’s current physicians and care team to develop a care plan that aligns patient values, goals and preferences for medical treatment to ensure the best possible care. 

Who Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services?

Palliative care is an option for Washington Health patients living with serious illness who are facing complex medical decision.  Serious illness includes advance cancer, kidney failure (end stage renal disease), congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia along with other serious illnesses.   

The Palliative Care Team Can Help

Working closely with your primary medical team of doctors, the Palliative Care Team provides an extra layer of support:

• Assist in addressing complex symptoms
• Help identify goals of care by devoting time for family meetings and/or individual/family counseling
• Assist with understanding medical conditions, ensuring choices for medical care match the patient’s goals and values
• Help anticipate and plan next steps as disease progresses
• Provide guidance with difficult treatment choices
• Assist with heath care coordination, navigating the health care system to improve the ability to carry on with your daily life
• Provide psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual support for you and your family

How to Get Palliative Care

Ask your physician for a referral. The Washington Health Palliative Care Team can offer during their hospital stay and following discharge. You may contact your Washington Health Palliative Care Team for general palliative care information.  

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Email: PalCare@washingtonhealth.com