Supportive
Palliative Care

Palliative care is specialized and supportive medical care designed to provide relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness while you continue to seek treatment. It focuses on improving the quality of life for both the individual and their family, helping you feel as good as possible each day. Palliative care is appropriate at any stage of a serious illness and can be provided alongside curative treatment.

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Maximizing Your Quality of Life

Palliative Care focuses on increasing your quality of life by relieving symptoms and stress while you continue to seek treatment. Our In-Home Care involves a registered nurse and social worker who will meet with you and your family where you are most comfortable. Appointments with our Nurse Practitioner are primarily through telehealth. Meeting in your home not only alleviates the burden of having to travel for an appointment but allows the practitioner to treat you holistically, in a way that is realistic for you and your situation.

  • Telehealth Appointments Provide Care from the Comfort of Your Home!

The goals of palliative care include:

  • Enhancing quality of life by managing symptoms including complex pain, depression, anxiety, fatigue, shortness of breath, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite, difficulty breathing and alleviating suffering

  • Preventing frequent emergency room visits and unnecessary hospital admissions

  • Reducing unnecessary healthcare expenses

  • Coordinating a care plan, communicating that plan among providers, and establishing an active support system

  • Providing emotional and spiritual support throughout your care

  • Providing choices in advance care planning that match the goals and priorities of the patient and family

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I am grateful for all of Heartlinks’ help with my father. All of the nurses and staff I have worked with have been wonderful and I know they have helped my father a great deal with giving him the attention that he really needed.

Tammy M.

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Whether you're exploring palliative care for yourself or someone you care about, we're here to help answer any and all questions you have about the process and our services. 

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Who is Eligible for Palliative Care?

Those suffering from a serious or life-limiting illness such as:

  • Cancer

  • Heart Disease

  • Lung Disease

  • COPD

  • Pulmonary Fibrosis

  • Kidney/Renal Disease

  • Liver Disease

  • Stroke

  • Autoimmune Disease

  • Advanced Age / Failure to Thrive

  • Alzheimer's / Dementia

  • Parkinson's Disease

  • ALS

  • Cerebrovascular Disease

  • Congestive Heart Failure

  • Multiple Sclerosis

  • Neurological Diseases

  • HIV / AIDS

  • Coronary Artery Disease

Those who desire better management of their symptoms such as:

  • Shortness of breath

  • Fatigue

  • Nausea

  • Constipation

  • Loss of Appetite

  • Anxiety

  • Agitation

  • Difficulty Sleeping

  • Complex pain resulting from a serious condition

  • Depression

  • Other distressing symptoms related to the illness

Those whose disease process causes:

  • Multiple emergency room visits in the past year

  • Frequent falls

  • Decline in functional activities of daily living

  • Difficulty getting to appointments outside the home

  • Complex or multiple symptom management needs

  • Multiple comorbid conditions

  • Cognitive declines

  • Weight loss

Get Information About Palliative Care

A referral to any of our programs can be made by anyone, including family members, friends, or healthcare professionals. To make a palliative care referral, or to receive more information, please call (509) 837-1676 or fill out the form below, and a member of our team will contact you as soon as possible.

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