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Palliative Care

Palliative Care2022-09-19T01:30:36-04:00

Living with a life-threatening, progressive, or incurable illness can present many challenges for patients and their families. Palliative care is a team approach to medicine focused on preventing or relieving pain and other physical, emotional, and spiritual distress that can accompany a serious illness. It draws on a range of resources and professional expertise and is designed to work in partnership with the patient’s primary treating physician to ensure complete, well-coordinated care.

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Living with a life-threatening, progressive, or incurable illness can present many challenges for patients and their families. Palliative care is a team approach to medicine focused on preventing or relieving pain and other physical, emotional, and spiritual distress that can accompany a serious illness. It draws on a range of resources and professional expertise and is designed to work in partnership with the patient’s primary treating physician to ensure complete, well-coordinated care.

PALLIATIVE SERVICES

Palliative care services at CentraState Medical Center are coordinated by a dedicated palliative care nurse and are designed to optimize quality of life for patients and their families. They include:

  • Pain and symptom management to achieve maximum patient comfort
  • Therapy to maintain and improve the ability to perform tasks of daily living
  • Emotional and spiritual support for patients and their caregivers
  • Education and support groups to empower patients and their families
  • Complementary therapies to help ease stress and enhance comfort
  • Guidance on insurance verification and approval
  • Help with hospital discharge planning, including information about options, recommendations for ongoing care that enhances quality of life, coordination of care, and communication of needs and goals to chosen providers
  • Assistance with end-of-life planning and decision-making
  • Help with transitioning to hospice, if appropriate
Palliative Resources Min

PALLIATIVE MEDICINE PHYSICIANS

Maged Ghattas, M.D. MG

Maged Ghattas, M.D.

Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Pain Management

Vikranta Sharma, M.D. VS

Vikranta Sharma, M.D.

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

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