Palliative Care
If you're living with a serious illness such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), or Parkinson’s disease, you can count on Capital Region Palliative Care to partner with you, your loved ones, and your doctor to address your physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs with the goal of improving your quality of life. Our team of palliative medicine specialists provides palliative care to patients across our health system.
Palliative Care Vs. Hospice Care
Hospice care focuses on comfort care for a patient’s remaining weeks or months at the end of life. To qualify for hospice, a physician must certify that a patient has a terminal illness and has six months or less to live.
Palliative care provides an extra layer of support that does not necessarily exclude treatments aimed at reducing or curing an illness and, in many cases, is used to complement treatments.
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As a collaboration with Granite VNA, our palliative care core team in Concord includes a palliative care team consisting of a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioners, nurse, and spiritual counselor. Our team in Laconia includes a physician and a nurse.
Our teams primarily serve hospitalized patients in Concord and Laconia; however, as staffing allows, patients are seen in medical offices on the Concord and Laconia campuses.
How Palliative Care Helps You
- Identifies goals by honoring and respecting your values, wishes, and priorities
- It helps you in understanding your illness, prognosis, and treatment options
- Supports you in making difficult medical decisions
- Make recommendations to referring providers for symptom management related to serious illness
- Provides help in navigating the healthcare system
- Assists in understanding treatment options from your healthcare team
- Helps in advance care planning
