Mercy Palliative Care
You’re not ready for Hospice.
But you need care.
Mercy Palliative Care is here for you!
Focusing on comfort and quality of life, Mercy Palliative Care provides
holistic Christian care to patients with an advanced illness receiving curative
treatment.
How to contact Mercy Palliative Care:
To learn more about Mercy Palliative Care, refer a patient
or request a consultation with a Mercy Hospice & Palliative
Care physician, please call 479-314-2755 or email: Kara.Billingsley@mercy.net
What is Palliative care? Palliative care
provides physical, emotional and spiritual support to patients facing an
advanced illness through pain and symptom management.
How is Palliative Care different from Hospice? The
main difference is that patients can continue curative treatments while
under Palliative Care. Patients are accepted at any stage
of a life-threatening or chronic medical illness; there is no requirement
for a six-month prognosis.
What Mercy Palliative Care Offers:
- An outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
- Hospital consult service
- Home or Alternative Care settings
- Coordinated care with patient’s primary care physician
- Improved quality of life and pain management
- Review of medications’ cost effectiveness
- Psychosocial spiritual counseling and bereavement services
- Transition support between care settings
Why should you choose Mercy Palliative Care? Our
program is a model of care for patients with chronic medical or life-limiting
illnesses, which is delivered by a professional team composed of, but
not limited to the following disciplines: medicine, nursing, social
work, pastoral care, pharmacy and volunteers. Care is delivered at the
appropriate site and primarily aims to relieve suffering and improve the
patient’s and family’s quality of life.
Who can receive Palliative Care? Patients
who are facing an illness that is considered chronic or life-threatening
and are willing to accept our services may receive Palliative Care.
Who pays for Palliative Care? Most patient
costs are covered by Medicare, private insurance companies and Medicaid.
When should you call Mercy Palliative Care? The
services provided at Mercy Palliative Care are available
to assist patients and their families at all stages of life. You
don’t need to wait for a terminal diagnosis to learn more about Mercy
Palliative Care.
About Mercy Palliative Care
Mercy Palliative Care began its program in June of 2006 under the principal
values of The Sisters of Mercy. It values the dignity of each person and
strives to alleviate suffering and improve the quality of life whenever
possible. Realizing the need to minister to patients who are faced with
a chronic illness yet not ready for hospice care, the Mercy Palliative Care
program was conceived.
Our program is a model of care for patients with a chronic medical or life-limiting
illness, which is delivered by a professional team composed of, but not
limited to the following disciplines: medicine, nursing, social work, pastoral
care, pharmacy and volunteers. It is delivered at the appropriate site of care
within the health care continuum depending on the patient’s function and
illness trajectory. The model of care primarily aims to relieve suffering and
improve the patients’ and families’ quality of life.
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