For Patient & Caregivers

For Patients and Caregivers

We provide a need based palliative care service for patients with chronic neurological disease at any stage of illness.

• Our team can help with a wide variety of issues including:
• Coming to terms with a new diagnosis
• Difficult emotions such as sadness, grief, worry or guilt
• Existential or spiritual challenges such as hopelessness or loneliness
• Hard to control symptoms such as pain, fatigue and depression
• Finding support for caregivers and family
• Communication challenges within a family
• Planning for the future
• Assistance around end-of-life or hospice

What to expect:

New patient appointments typically last 2-4 hours
You will meet with multiple members of our team

• Provider, chaplain/therapist, social work, nursing and often students

Self-referral process

• We do accept self-referrals
• We will need updated medical history including previous provider notes, laboratory tests and imaging reports
• Sometimes there are issues with patients with Medicaid/Medicare should they need transportation if self-referred