Palliative Care Consultants

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative Care is comfort care – a medical specialty that allows people with advanced disease to achieve comfort through expert management of pain and symptoms and to maintain an improved quality of life.

Who are we?

Palliative Care Consultants is a group of highly trained clinical professionals who provide pain and symptom management for patients to improve overall comfort and quality of life. They can also help families discuss options for treatment and identify care goals.

The Palliative Care Consultants team has:

  • More than 25 years of experience in palliative care counseling and disease management.
  • The highest number of Board Certified physicians and grief experts in the community
  • A commitment to working in partnership with a patient's attending physician or specialist to achieve maximum healthcare potential.

How do we help patients?

Palliative Care Consultants are specialists in

  • Managing pain and symptoms
  • Helping to establish care goals
  • Helping patients and families making difficult treatment decisions

What patients could be assisted by this service?

Palliative care services are available to any patient with a chronic, progressive disease. Patients with congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, dementia, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, cancer, AIDS, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Parkinsons, Stroke, Liver or Renal Disease, and Ventilator dependent patients can all benefit from palliative care. Care is also provided in any care setting – home, hospital, nursing home or assisted living.

How do these services benefit patients and families?

Our team of physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, and therapists can –

  • Assist in treating pain and acute symptoms earlier in the course of an illness
    • Reduce the length of stay in hospitals
  • Enable patients to stay in the comfort of their own home environment
  • Improve continuity of care with Home Care discharge plans, across multiple care settings and throughout disease progression
  • Enable patients to maintain their independence for as long as possible and maintain an active/productive lifestyle by enhancing Quality of Life
  • Ensure that patients and their families get the care they want
    • Help guide patient and family questions, provide emotional support, and assist in navigating a family through difficult decision making