Palliative Care

• Better coordination of care for patients receiving care from different sources and services
• Increased focus on understanding and addressing patient and family concerns, support and comfort needs
• An advocate in the healthcare system to help look at where the patient's condition and treatment options fall into the "big picture" of the patient's life
• Support and assistance with making advance care plans for the patient when appropriate
• Comfort and support for the patient and family
  • Quality of life for the patient and family
  • Continuity of care
  • Communication about treatment goals and choices

Talk with your child's physician and tell him/her you would like to be referred to Palliative Care at 501-364-6658.

• Palliative Care means helping the patient and family have a good life no matter how long life will be
• Palliative Care is not hospice
• Patients and families do not lose any treatment options when receiving Palliative Care services
• Patients do not have to make any advance care plans in order to receive Palliative Care services
• Palliative Care involvement and support is available for as long as needed and can also be stopped at any time at the patient and family's request
• The doctors and treatment teams who follow a patient continue to follow a patient after Palliative Care joins the treatment team

A Palliative Care team member is available by phone 24 hours daily at 501-364-6658 or call the ACH Operator at 501-364-1100 and ask that the Palliative Care team member on-call be paged.