Relief and Comfort for Our Patients
Elizabeth Palliative Care is an integral part of our service offering at The Elizabeth Hospice. Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
As a leading provider of palliative care in San Diego County and Southwest Riverside County, your care team at The Elizabeth Hospice works together with your primary care physician and other physicians to provide an added layer of support. Palliative care can be provided along with curative treatment. By relieving your symptoms, the palliative care team may actually help you improve your health.
Your palliative care team will include a:
Illnesses that are appropriate for palliative care include: metastatic cancer, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke, Parkinson’s and more. Patients are required to have a primary care physician and follow an established plan of care which may include grief counseling.