If you or someone you love lives with a serious or complex illness, palliative care can help, regardless of your age or the stage of the illness. Community Palliative Consultants, a program of Community Hospice & Palliative Care, is a consultative service to help you find relief from pain, symptoms and stress and achieve your goals of care.
Palliative care is a medical specialty that helps people with a variety of serious illnesses find a better quality of life. A palliative care professional works with you, your loved ones and your physician to create a plan of care that offers relief from physical, emotional and spiritual pain, symptoms and stress. They explain your choices and ensure your needs and wishes are honored.
Community Palliative Consultants professionals do more than just focus on relieving pain and symptoms; our experienced team helps you with critical decision-making and establishing care goals.
While hospice care and palliative care both focus on providing patients with comfort and families with support, palliative care is available at any stage of an illness. You can elect palliative care while receiving curative treatments. Palliative care also works alongside your primary care physician instead of replacing them.
Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance cover the cost of Community Palliative Consultants services. A co-payment may apply.
For patients receiving care in the hospital, your attending physician can request a palliative consultation. One of our specially trained physicians or nurse practitioners will meet with you and your loved ones to help you make important choices about your care. Then they will work with your physician to develop the best treatment plan.
Community Palliative Consultants services are available at the following hospitals or wherever it is you call home:
