Palliative care services at Valley are available to patients on an inpatient (hospital), outpatient and at-home basis. Regardless of where a patient receives their palliative care, they can expect personalized care and access to the full spectrum of palliative care services, including:
- Pain and symptom management to achieve maximum patient comfort
- Treatments to maintain and improve patients’ ability to perform the tasks of daily living
- Emotional and spiritual support for patients and their caregivers
- Care coordination assistance
- Assistance with life planning and decisions, if appropriate, such as advance directives, living wills, power of attorney and other documents, including practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST)