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Hospice is a compassionate, patient-centered approach to medical care and support for people at the end of life and their families. Hospice care is care focused on maintaining dignity, increasing quality of life, and providing comfort, including pain and symptom management. Hospice care is for patients with a variety of diagnoses, some of which include: ALS, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer.

Different kinds of care meet our needs at different times in life. There is preventive care to keep us healthy. Rehabilitative care to help us recover from injury. Curative care to fight disease. And hospice care to provide relief from the physical, emotional and spiritual symptoms and pain that often accompany a serious life-limiting illness.

In its simplest form, palliative medicine is the discipline of pain and symptom management. In practice, though, the specialty is far more complex.

Palliative medicine is a science, a medical specialty as distinct as cardiology or obstetrics. It encompasses a commitment to care wrapped around a patient's physical comfort, and emotional and spiritual well being.

Palliative care should be part of the treatment regimen for anyone facing a serious or life-limiting illness. What that looks like varies based on a patient's medical condition, personal care goals, and cultural and religious values. But the goals are always the same: To control symptoms, relieve suffering, and preserve the best possible quality of life, as determined by the patient. That is what we do.

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