Prisma Health Palliative Care – 3 Med Park

We can help you and your family learn more about your disease, plan for advanced care and make future decisions.

We provide emotional, spiritual or religious support and assist in making referrals to community agencies. Our caregivers include a special team with advanced training, skills and experience working together to meet all your needs, including:

• Doctors
• Nurse practitioners
• Social workers
• Chaplains

Palliative care may be right for you if you suffer from pain or other symptoms due to a serious illness.

These can include but are not limited to:

• Heart disease
• Respiratory disease
• Kidney failure
• Alzheimer’s disease
• AIDS
• ALS
• Multiple sclerosis
• Cancer

It may also be right for you if you experience frequent emergency department visits or have several hospital admissions (three or more within 12 months) with the same symptom, a medical condition that is getting worse that requires help to control symptoms, pain or stress, or eating problems related to advanced illness.

You can ask your doctor or nurse for a referral for palliative care. Also talk with your family, friends or caregivers about your wishes.

To make an appointment, give us a call or send us a request. Please remember:

• Arrive 15 minutes prior to your appointment time to complete a few forms.
• Bring insurance card and photo ID (such as a driver's license).
• Bring all medications you are currently taking.
• If you must cancel your appointment, please notify us 24 hours in advance.

After-hours care

Our practice has a provider on call each night and weekends to assure your care is in the best of hands.

At our clinic, located at 1 Richland Medical Park Dr., we offer patient and family support for symptom and pain management, medical decision-making and advance directives. We also offer end-of-life discussions and support for those who can't be supported by hospice.

Learn more about the Palliative Medicine Clinic »

Most insurance plans cover all or a portion of the palliative care treatment received in the hospital, similar to other hospital and medical services. This is also true of Medicare and Medicaid. If you have any questions or financial concerns, please talk with a social worker on the Palliative Care team.

• We accept most insurance plans.
• Payment is due at time of service.
• We accept cash, checks, debit and credit cards.