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Mount Carmel Palliative Care provides pain and symptom management for patients with
advanced illness. Using an expert, interdisciplinary team of physicians,
nurses, social workers, pharmacists, dietitians, chaplains and other specially
trained staff, we work with patients and their families to provide assistance and counsel on the physical, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of serious illness.
The
program includes a Palliative Medicine Consultation Service and Acute Palliative Care
Units at Mount Carmel East, West and St. Ann's. The Acute Palliative Care Units
provide daily palliative care and a forum for treating symptoms, assessing
needs and making personal decisions about treatment choices. The Palliative Medicine
Consultation Service assesses and treats pain and other symptoms, helps
patients and their families determine treatment options, anticipate future
healthcare needs and consider the possible course an illness may take.
One
of the first in the United States to offer hospital-based palliative care
(Mount Carmel began providing palliative care in 1997) and one of the most
comprehensive, Mount Carmel is one of
six exemplary palliative care programs in the U.S. designated as
Palliative Care Leadership Centers and is actively involved in teaching other
hospitals how to develop their own palliative care programs.
For more
information about Mount Carmel Palliative Care, call 614-234-0200. |
