Palliative Care

Common illnesses and diseases that qualify a patient for palliative services include, but are not limited to, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), dementia (Alzheimer’s, etc.), Parkinson’s Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

The palliative care team is an additional layer of support. We work with your primary doctor on difficult issues, such as:

• Available treatment options
• Advance directives
• Pain
• Breathlessness
• Fatigue
• Nausea
• Loss of appetite
• Difficulty sleeping
• Restlessness
• Anxiety/Depression
• Fears
• Spiritual tension

Palliative care can be provided for anyone with a serious illness, at any age and any stage of the illness. You can receive palliative care along with curative treatment; therefore, it is not dependent on prognosis.

Hospice programs focus on easing pain and discomfort associated with life-limiting illness, when the prognosis of the illness is six months or less and curative treatment is no longer effective, or the patient has elected to discontinue curative treatment. To learn more about our hospice services, please visit our Hospice Care page.

We proudly offer palliative services in Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Jackson, Kanawha, Nicholas and Putnam counties. Care is provided at any location – whether it be your home, a nursing home or assisted living facility or a medical facility.