Palliative care
Palliative care focuses on improving your quality of life and relieving symptoms when you are critically ill. This offers you an extra level of comfort whether you are battling a serious medical condition or terminally ill.
Palliative care services in Plano, Texas
Our palliative care providers want to improve your daily life during treatment.
At Medical City Plano, our palliative care team can help you live your life more comfortably and focus on living well during an uncertain time. We offer pain relief and emotional support for you and your family.
Expert advice, available 24/7
Free health-related information is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Free health-related information is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Our palliative medicine program
Palliative care services are designed to provide relief of symptoms that interfere with quality of life when treatments will not change the time course of the illness.
Goals of palliative care
The main goals of palliative care include:
- To prevent or treat as early as possible the symptoms of the disease and side effects caused by treatment of the disease
- To prevent or treat psychological, social and spiritual problems related to the disease or its treatment
- To help you live more comfortably with life-threatening disease
Our interdisciplinary team of dedicated professionals in nursing, social work, chaplaincy and counseling work together to address your needs and the needs of your loved ones, including bereavement counseling, if needed. These dedicated team members are trained to help you in a supportive environment, incorporating psychosocial and spiritual care according to your needs, values, beliefs and culture.
Benefits of palliative care
Palliative care:
- Provides relief from pain and other distressing
- Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
- Intends neither to hasten or postpone death
- Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care
- Offers a support system to help you live as actively as possible
- Offers a support system to help your family cope during your illness and in their own bereavement
- Will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness
For questions or to request more information about our palliative care program please call (214) 473-7283.