Every Hospice Austin patient is cared for by the physicians and nurse practitioners of Austin Palliative Care.

Austin Palliative Care also provides a community-based palliative care program for patients with a serious illness who are undergoing curative treatments. The purpose of palliative medicine is to lessen the physical symptoms of the disease and/or treatment of the disease. Palliative care is for any patient with a chronic, potentially life-limiting illness.

You may want to consider a palliative care consult for patients with a serious illness and:

• multiple hospital or emergency room visits
• declining functional or cognitive ability that interferes with three or more activities of daily living
• you would not be surprised if your patient dies within the next 12 months

Clinical care benefits include:

• advance care planning
• disease education
• social determinants of health assessment
• symptom assessment
• caregiver burden assessment
• medication reconciliation
• care coordination

Patients are seen by physicians and nurse practitioners in the comfort of wherever a patient considers home. To learn more about our community-based palliative care program for patients not ready for hospice care, please visit AustinPalliativeCare.org.