Ohio Living Palliative Medicine
Palliative medicine at Ohio Living offers comprehensive support for individuals facing serious illness, focusing on improving quality of life through symptom management, pain relief, and emotional support. Our compassionate team works closely with patients and their families to create personalized care plans that address physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. By integrating palliative care early in the treatment process, we help alleviate distress, facilitate better communication with healthcare providers, and ensure that patients' wishes are respected, providing comfort and enhancing overall well-being.
- In-depth experience working with whole-person care that can relieve symptoms of a disease or disorder, regardless of whether it can be cured.
- A full range of services provided by one of our nurse practitioners, based on your patient’s needs and requests.
- Family meetings to discuss goals of care and to make treatment choices.
- A personalized treatment plan with goals specific to your patients’ needs, concerns, symptom management and relief from suffering.
- Coordination of care across health care services to maximize the quality of life along the continuum of the illness.
What do I need to know about palliative medicine?
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Where are palliative medicine services delivered?
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Services are provided anywhere a patient calls home.
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How do I know if this palliative medicine is right for me or my loved one?
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Palliative medicine may be right for you if you suffer from uncontrolled symptoms related to your illness.
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Does insurance cover this care?
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Most insurance plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, cover palliative medicine. Co-pays may apply, depending on your insurance plan.
What symptoms can be managed with palliative medicine?
- Pain in/from bone, muscle, nerve, tissue or tumor
- Stress, anxiety or depression
- Shortness of breath
- Fatigue
- Constipation
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea
- Difficulty sleeping
- Stress of medical treatments
- Other debilitating symptom
What can palliative medicine do for my loved one?
- Work in partnership with their doctors to provide an extra layer of support for them and their family
- Provide in-home visits from a palliative medicine provider to assess their overall needs
- Assist with advance care planning
- Relieve symptoms and distress
- Help them better understand their disease and diagnosis
- Help clarify their treatment goals and options
- Understand and support their ability to cope with their illness
- Assist with making medical decisions
- Coordinate with their other doctors
What is the Difference Between
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.
While the objective of both hospice and palliative care is pain and symptom relief, the prognosis and goals of care tend to be different. Hospice is comfort care without curative intent; the patient no longer has curative options or has chosen not to pursue treatment because the side effects outweigh the benefits. Palliative care is comfort care with or without curative intent.
Study Confirms Benefits of Early Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer
Patients who received palliative care along with standard treatment for advanced cancer reported having a better quality of life and mood than patients who did not receive early palliative care, according to of a randomized clinical trial.
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Serving 43 counties
Covering 85% of Ohioans
Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice - Greater Akron
83 North Miller Road,
Suite 101
Fairlawn, Ohio 44333
P 330.873.3468
F 330.873.3465
Serving Cuyahoga, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit and Wayne Counties
Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice - Greater Cleveland
36500 Euclid Avenue,
Suite 152
Willoughby, Ohio 44094
P 440.953.1256
F 440.953.0870
Serving Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Lake, and Portage Counties
Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice - Greater Columbus
9200 Worthington Road,
Suite 300
Westerville, Ohio 43082
P 614.433.0031
F 614.300.2184
Serving Delaware, Franklin, Licking, Muskingum, Madison, Pickaway, and Union Counties
Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice - Greater Toledo
1730 South Reynolds Road
Toledo, Ohio 43614
P 419.865.1499
F 419.865.4227
Serving Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wood Counties
Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice - Greater Youngstown
6715 Tippecanoe Road,
Building E, Suite 201
Canfield, Ohio 44406
P 330.533.4350
F 330.533.4650
Serving Ashtabula, Columbiana, Jefferson, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, and Trumbull Counties
Ohio Living Bethany Hospice
6443 Far Hills Avenue
Dayton, Ohio 45459
P 937.963.1929
F 855.579.4968
Serving parts of Green and Montgomery Counties
Ohio Living Village Home Health & Hospice
11275 Springfield Pike
Cincinnati, Ohio 45246
P 513.681.8174
F 513.681.1850
Serving Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Preble, and Warren Counties