Palliative Care

What is Palliative Care?

Supportive care is interdisciplinary care that aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of life, optimize function, and assist in decision-making for patients with advanced illnesses and their family.

Palliative Care is:

Specialized disciplinary medical care for people with serious illness
Aims to relieve suffering, improve quality of life, optimize function, and assist with decision making for patients with advanced illness, and their families
The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family
Supportive Care is provided by a team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists who work together with a patient’s doctors to provide an extra layer of support
It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and can be provided along with curative treatment or as the main focus of care
Supportive Care can help support the patient care continuum

Katy Supportive Medicine can provide support for the following:

Management of symptoms including pain, nausea, depression, anxiety, insomnia
Psychological and spiritual care, developing a support system to help the individual live as actively as possible
Navigation through the healthcare system, including help with advance directives
Emphasis on individual choice of privacy

These important services help:

Remain comfortable, preventing and relieving pain and suffering, improving patients’ quality of life
Maintain connection to family and friends
Foster vitality and independence

Patients who may benefit from these service include:

Those experiencing chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders, renal disease, chronic heart failure and progressive neurological conditions
Oncology patients
Patients with recurrent infections
Patients with non-healing wounds
Patients who have a history of recurrent hospitalizations
Pain or other severe discomforts requiring symptom management
Patients with psychosocial, emotional and/or spiritual distress
Patients who need coordination of care

Services at Katy Supportive Medicine are coordinated with patients’ community doctors and home health services so that continuity of care is facilitated. These important services help patients remain comfortable, relieving pain and suffering and improving quality of life.

We are happy to help you determine patient eligibility. For more information about Supportive Care Services contact us.