Palliative Care

Palliative Care helps fill the gaps left in traditional medicine by offering holistic treatment of symptoms for some of the most vulnerable people in your community. A typical palliative care patient has multiple health conditions and lives everyday with difficult symptoms. Many have limited social and financial resources.

Palliative Care

What is Palliative Care?

Specialized care for serious illness.

Palliative Care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses or health problems. This type of care helps people of all ages by reliving pain and other symptoms like breathing problems, nausea, depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, exhaustion, loss of appetite or spiritual or emotional concerns.

Team approach to managing your illness.

The team, consisting of specially trained doctors, nurses, social workers and chaplains, takes time to get to know you and your health goals. The team works in collaboration with your current doctors and specialists. The team is interested in learning how your health issues have impacted your quality of life and want to make each day as good as it can be by providing support and symptom management.

How does Palliative Care Help?

When you have an advanced illness, life may seem very confusing and complicated. Here is how Midland Care can help:

Listens carefully to you and your family
Helps you understand your illness and what to expect
Supports you as you work towards goals
Works with your other doctors and health care providers
Provides you with emotional support
Manages your pain and other symptoms
Provides you with 24/7 phone support

Caregiver covering senior woman with sweater at home. Happy elderly patient with friendly female nurse spending time together.

Where is Palliative Care?

Patients and families visiting our Clinic are welcomed by our friendly staff. Parking is close to the building for easy access. At the clinic, the Team will take the time to listen to you. They will ask you about pain and other symptoms and take steps to help you feel better.

Some patients find it hard to leave their home for medical appointments. If coming to the clinic is too difficult for you, the Team will offer to see you in your home.

The team will follow-up with you by phone. You will have access to a nurse by phone 24/7. Physician visits are covered by Medicare Part B and most other insurance providers.

What Does Palliative Care Cost?

How is Palliative Care different from Hospice Care?

Palliative Care is for people at any stage in their disease process who are living with difficult symptoms, and can help people manage chronic conditions that they may live with for many years. Hospice is only for people who are nearing the end of their lives. Patients may choose to continue curative treatments such as radiation, chemotherapy, or dialysis. Both use a team approach to health care to help people manage difficult symptoms.

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Midland Care is Your Local Expert.

Midland Care has forty years of experience treating people with serious illness, and has offered palliative care since 2001. We believe that patients with advanced illness and their families have a need for palliative care services, including pain and symptom management, education and emotional support.

If you have questions about Palliative Care or would like to make a referral, contact Midland Care at 1-800-491-3691. The sooner you call, the sooner we can help.