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Palliative care and hospice care both focus on the comfort, care, and quality of life of individuals with a serious illness. Hospice care is a specific type of palliative care that is provided in the final weeks or months of life.
Palliative and hospice care are very similar, yet have key differences. What Is Palliative Care? Palliative care is specialized healthcare for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness, it is based on need, not prognosis and helps align the goals of care.
Hospice care is an extension of palliative medicine for patients with a short life expectancy (less than a six-month prognosis) that provides additional supportive services. Our team can provide more information about and assist with a transition to hospice care if needed.
Our palliative care physicians: Provide expert management of complex pain and symptom issues that accompany a serious health condition. Create treatment plans that may involve prescribing medication, radiation therapy or procedures to help prevent and alleviate pain.
Mount Carmel Palliative Care offers a full continuum of palliative care from the diagnosis of a serious illness through the end of life with our tenured hospice program.
Palliative and Hospice Care? Hospice care is similar to palliative care, but there are important differences. Because more than 90 percent of hospice care is paid for through the Medicare hospice benefit, hospice patients must meet Medicare’s eligibility requirements; palliative care patients do not have to meet the same requirements.
Both palliative care and hospice care are focused on the needs of the patient and their quality of life. Palliative care focuses on maintaining the highest quality of life while managing treatment and other needs. Hospice care specifically focuses on the period closest to death.
