Palliative Care Services-offered by HPCG

Palliative Care Services (PCS): PCS is a medical specialty offered to patients for goal-of-care discussions, relief of pain and other symptoms of serious illness at any stage of the illness. PCS are available, upon doctor’s orders, in Greensboro hospitals, assisted-living and long-term-care communities.

PCS at Moses H. Cone Hospital and Wesley Long Community Hospital offers a hospital-based team to address the needs of hospitalized patients, upon doctor’s orders. The PCS team is:

    • Physician
    • Nurse practitioner
    • Nurse liaison
    • Social worker
    • Chaplain
    • Grief counselor

PCS in long-term-care communities offers a specialized medical team that focuses on treating pain, stress and other symptoms of illness and its treatment, upon doctor’s orders.  In long-term-care communities our PCS team is:

    • Physician
    • Nurse Practitioner
 

What is palliative care? The word palliate means to make comfortable. Palliative care includes pain and symptom management, and support for caregivers. Palliative care can help a patient at any stage of a serious illness, even as early as the time of diagnosis.

Who can benefit from palliative care?

• Patients with life-limiting illness (diagnoses could include, but are not limited to):

• Patients with uncontrolled physical symptoms (can include, but not limited to):

• Patients and/or families wishing to discuss: