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What Is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is team-based care that focuses on:
- Easing the symptoms of a serious, chronic, complex or terminal illness.
- Addressing a patient and family’s practical, emotional and spiritual concerns.
Active, comprehensive care that enhances quality of life, palliative care supports the whole person—body, mind, spirit—and the family.
Palliative care practitioners work with a patient and family caregivers to:
- Promote a sense of control of the illness and treatments.
- Coordinate how care is delivered.
- Maintain and improve day-to-day functioning.
- Relieve suffering.
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Palliative Care & Treatment
Palliative care can be delivered alongside treatments that aim to cure the disease.
By managing the symptoms and related challenges of health concerns, the patient is better able to tolerate treatment for such medical conditions as cancer, heart disease, pulmonary (lung) problems and neurologic disorders.
Palliative Care & Hospice
When a patient can no longer receive treatments to cure the disease, palliative care is provided in the form of hospice care. As a patient faces the end of life, hospice offers treatment and support that relieves pain and other symptoms. Hospice helps the patient and family live life to the fullest in the time that remains.
Our Palliative Care Team
Palliative care is the framework for the services provided by Midwest CareCenter.
Our team focuses on coordinating all aspects of care to improve quality of life as the patient defines it. The patient, family and personal physician are active members of the palliative care team.
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