Palliative Care
Enhancing Quality of Life for Patients and Families with Palliative Care.
Palliative care focuses on relieving symptoms and improving the quality of life for individuals facing serious illnesses. It is provided by a team of healthcare professionals who work together to address physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
What is Palliative Care?
If you or a loved one is living with a serious illness, you should consider adding palliative care to your treatment.
Coping with serious illness becomes harder over time and the quality of life often starts to suffer. Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life, while also offering support to family members and other loved ones.
Palliative medicine consultations from physicians or nurse practitioners are available in multiple settings such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and your private residence.
Focuses on relieving symptoms, managing pain, and improving the quality of life for individuals facing serious illnesses.
Can be provided at any stage of an illness, regardless of prognosis or life expectancy.
Aims to address physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs, often delivered by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.
Can be provided in various settings, including hospitals, hospice facilities, outpatient clinics, and patients' homes.
May be provided concurrently with curative or life-prolonging treatments.
When is Palliative Care Appropriate?
Your quality of life has been suffering due to your illness.
Your condition has worsened despite the best care by your doctors.
You need more help from family and friends because of your worsening condition.
You have had multiple and frequent trips to the physician’s office or hospital to address your serious illness and symptoms.
The information provided by your doctors is sometimes confusing.
You need help understanding what to expect in the future and what choices are available to you.
When Palliative Care Can Help
Discovering the right time to consider palliative care can be a vital step in enhancing quality of life for individuals facing serious illnesses. By recognizing key indicators and symptoms, individuals and their families can access the comprehensive support and relief that palliative care offers.
Common Signs and Symptoms:
Pain
Nausea and vomiting
Delirium, anxiety, and agitation
Breathing difficulty and chronic cough
Insomnia
Multiple disease-related hospitalizations over the past few months
We believe that one’s quality of life should not be compromised by illnesses.
Why Choose Us?
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The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval
Compassionate patient care is our top priority and has earned us The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval. The commission’s standards are regarded as the most rigorous criteria in the healthcare industry. Our Quality of Life Committee meet regularly to improve our patients’ experience with hospice care.
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24/7 Care
Our staff available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to respond to the needs of all patients and their families.
We offer same day admission.
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Fast Delivery of Pharmaceutical Needs
Leaving the house isn’t always as easy as it used to.
We provide fast delivery of patients' pharmaceutical and medical equipment requirements through in-house fulfillment services.
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Multilingual
Our multilingual staff serves the needs of all the community.
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Amari Hospice will care for you:
Your home
Skilled nursing facilities
Assisted living facilities
Board and care facilities
Independent living communities
Memory care units
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We are committed to providing accessible healthcare services to our patients and strive to accommodate a wide range of insurance coverage. We are pleased to accept the following insurance plans:
Medicare
Cigna
Anthem Medicare Advantage (managed by Imperial Group)*
Anthem Blue Cross PPO*
Blue Shield PPO
Blue Shield HMO*
Blue Shield MEdicare Advantage
Healthnet SR-Medicare*
Tricare
Workmans Comp
*Prior authorization required.
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Individualized support focused on improving the quality of life.
The opportunity for patients and families to talk about their illnesses and what is most important to them.
The management of difficult symptoms, which often helps patients feel better.
Hospitalizations and unexpected visits by the doctor may decrease.
Helping patients and families understand the progression of illnesses, which enable them to make informed decisions about treatment options based on their goals.
Advanced Care Planning assistance is provided when needed.
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Palliative care consultants are trained physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses who partner with your physician to provide expert and focused care. Our palliative care team ensures that patients with serious and life-limiting illnesses have quality, coordinated care, and their loved ones and caregivers have the practical and emotional support they need.
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Medical Directors
Physicians with a specialty in pain and symptom management who collaborate with the hospice team to oversee the plan of care.
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Registered Nurses
Hospice care specialists and pain management experts are available 24/7 to help with any concerns.
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Certified Home Health Aides
Specially trained and available to assist patients with personal care and daily living activities such as bathing, dressing and grooming.
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Medical Social Workers
A medical social worker provides emotional support, counseling, and assistance with navigating healthcare resources and community services for patients and their families facing medical challenges.
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Chaplains
Spiritual Care Counselors who provide non-denominational faith support and bereavement support to patients, family, and staff members.
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Volunteers
Specially trained volunteers who provide friendly visits for companionship and relief care.
