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Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center's Comfort Care program is designed to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for individuals with advanced illness while providing support for their families. Death and dying are not comfortable topics to discuss. Communication between the patient, family members and healthcare workers is necessary if end-of-life care wishes are to be honored. Our program is designed to improve communication, ease pain, and improve life for people who are dying and their loved ones.
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What is Comfort Care?
Comfort Care addresses pain management and symptom control while taking care of the whole person- body, mind, spirit, heart, and soul. In addition comfort care provides a support system to help family members cope with a terminal diagnosis. Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center offers comfort care for patients experiencing an advanced, terminal, or life threatening illness. The goal of comfort care is to improve quality of life, provide information regarding the dying process, and offer support for the individual and their family.
What are the benefits of Comfort Care?
- Comfort Care respects the choices and goals of the terminally ill individual and their family.
- Comfort care addresses the medical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of the dying person.
- Comfort care advocates for the best quality of life for you during your illness.
- Comfort care provides educational material regarding end-of-life issues.
- Comfort care addresses pain and symptom management with medication as well as alternative therapies such as massage, guided imagery, music, and aromatherapy.
- Comfort care supports the needs of the family.
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