When and Where is Palliative Care Provided? Palliative Care Partners Your path may be very difficult or confusing when you have an advanced complex illness. You may be seeing multiple doctors, taking several medications, requiring frequent trips to the hospital and needing more help from family and friends. If this feels like the path you are on, you may benefit from Palliative Care Partners. Palliative care is most effective and helpful To learn more when introduced early in the course of If you or someone you know would like to treatment, but patients at all stages of learn more about Palliative Care Partners, an illness can benefit from palliative care. you can access our service by calling: Patients can be seen and treated by our (843) 606-7810 for hospital service. palliative care team in three locations: (843) 402-1211 for clinic or home services. At your home – when appropriate, we Your primary care doctor or specialist can make house calls refer you. Share this brochure with your At our Supportive Care Clinic, located within provider and ask if a referral is right for you. the Roper St. Francis Cancer Center on the campus of Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital During a hospital stay at any Roper St. Francis hospital Palliative Care Partners 316 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC 29401 www.rsfh.com/palliative Care and support because every moment matters. What is Palliative Care? Our Team Living with a serious illness can become difficult, Roper St. Francis Palliative Care Partners What to Expect from Palliative Care Partners especially over time when your body or mind is a team of multiple professionals with You can expect us to take time to get to feels the cumulative stress of disease and specialized experience in palliative medicine. know you and your family. We are dedicated coping. You and your family may have questions Every patient’s care is customized for his/ to treating the whole patient, not just your about your illness and the choices you must her particular needs, so the team members illness. We’ll find out what is most important make. Palliative care offers specialized medical may vary depending on the specific needs to you and will help you work to achieve it. care and extra support to help you deal with the and setting of the patient and family. Our Working with your doctor, we will provide: complexities of chronic illness such as heart, palliative care team works in cooperation with Expert pain management lung or kidney disease, dementia or cancer. your doctor, and may include the following Palliative care is not the same as hospice care. professionals: Hospice care, by definition, is end of life care, Physicians, Board Certified in Palliative but palliative care is appropriate at any stage Medicine in illness and, unlike hospice care, can be Nurse Practitioners provided along with curative treatment. The goal of palliative care is to provide the best Registered Nurses quality of life for patients by ensuring their Social Workers comfort and dignity. Palliative care focuses on the whole person and includes expert medical care, pain and symptom management, as well as emotional and spiritual support tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes. Complex symptom management (breathing difficulties, nausea, depression, anxiety, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia, fatigue, etc.) Assistance with medical decision-making based on your priorities and values Emotional and spiritual support Coordination of care between hospital Chaplains home and doctor’s office Other professionals such as pharmacists, Referrals to community resources including therapists, dietitians, case managers, patient home care, rehabilitation therapies and representatives and volunteers may also work hospice care with the team. Assistance with advance care planning such as an Advance Directive www.rsfh.com/palliative
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