Palliative Care

Palliative Care at St. Mary's Medical Center is available to assist patients and families at any point during the course of a chronic, serious or life-threatening illness. We work in partnership with your doctor and team during the course of your hospital stay.

We can help patients and their loved ones by:

Reducing or controlling pain or debilitating symptoms
Counseling patients and families when making medical decisions becomes difficult
Listening and providing support through all stages of illness
Discussion of treatment choices, including hospice referrals and coordination of in-patient comfort care

Services are offered by a team consisting of the following: