Palliative Care Sample Clauses
Palliative Care. The Plan provides Benefits for Palliative Care Conversations with your Provider so you can discuss your personal values and preferences of how you want relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. Palliative care focuses on improving life and providing comfort to people of all ages with serious, chronic and/or life threatening illnesses. While often associated with hospice care, it is not the same as Hospice as it can include curative treatment.
Palliative Care. Palliative care will be understood as care provided to patients who do not respond to the curative procedure and are in the ter- xxxxx stage. They represent an approach to improving the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threat- ening diseases. It includes the prevention and relief of suffering through the early identification, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems.
Palliative Care treatment directed at controlling pain, relieving other physical and emotional symptoms and focusing on the special needs of the Hospice Patient and the Hospice Patient's Family, as they experience the dying process rather than treatment aimed at investigation and intervention for the purpose of cure or prolongation of life.
Palliative Care. We will Indemnify the amount / number of days specified in Policy Schedule/Certificate of Insurance for palliative treatment following the diagnosis that Insured person’s medical condition is terminal and he will no longer receive treatment that will result in a recovery. We pay for your palliative treatment, social, psychological and spiritual care and hospital or hospice accommodation, nursing care and prescribed drugs and dressings provided that – • The Injury / illness diagnosed is not due to a Pre-existing condition. • The treating Medical Practitioner certifies in writing that medical condition is terminal and he will no longer receive treatment that will result in a recovery. For Purpose of this cover - Palliative medicines describes the comprehensive active treatment provided to patients whose life expectancy is limited and whose illness can no longer be cured and for whom the purpose of treatment is to achieve the best possible quality of life for the patients and his relatives This cover is also available as a fixed benefit option upto the sum insured specified in the Policy Schedule/ Certificate of Insurance or under the special conditions of the Policy Schedule/ Certificate of Insurance & subject to admissible claim as per the policy conditions applicable to this section including specific exclusion and to any other condition applicable to this policy. In respect to process claims, documents specified under Documentation section is necessary to evaluate the claim. All terms & conditions applicable to this cover remains same as mentioned in coverage, specific exclusion, General exclusion applicable to this section.
Palliative Care. Palliative care services can be provided in a hospital or in the home.
7.1 Continue to operate Palliative Care services while new services are being developed and alternative arrangements are operational in Cunderdin and elsewhere as appropriate and agreed.
7.2 Delivery of and support for consumer-focussed palliative and end of life care as per attached Draft Management Plan for management of the Cunderdin Palliative Care Residential Unit
7.3 Work with GP and other primary health care providers to enhance home based palliative care services through WACHS or an alternate provider.
7.4 Use telehealth to improve access to specialist palliative care and oncology services.
Palliative Care. There exists palliative care programming in the Regional Hospital and the community. Family Physicians have always played important roles in providing comfort to their dying patients. The Division can assist in improving palliative care supports and services.
Palliative Care. The Palliative Care work stream has been focusing on expanding the Community Palliative Program into Halton Hills. The program is modeled after the Milton Community Palliative Program which enables community physicians to provide palliative care 24/7 in the patient’s home for as long as possible. Furthermore, work continues on integrating the current Oakville Community Palliative Care Physician Program within Halton Healthcare to improve provider EMR access, allow for a common clinical chart, and streamline referral processes. The goals of this initiative are to decrease the number of ED visits in the last 30 days of life and to decrease palliative patient deaths in hospital when patient's wishes are more aligned with dying at home. Due to a funding opportunity through Ontario Health, the Mississauga Halton LHIN submitted a proposal and was approved to implement the addition of Palliative Care Nurse Practitioners on call 24/7 to support palliative care providers, patients and caregivers in our community as well as assist in supporting the 24/7 Palliative HELP Line. The Home & Community Care work stream has been focused on implementing a High Intensity Supports at Home (HISH) Program. The HISH Program is done in partnership with the Mississauga Xxxxxx XXXX as well as CANES Community Care (https:// xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx/). The objective of this program is to provide support for up to 35 high risk seniors in the community who are on the wait list for long-term care placement. For more information on this program please see the announcement included at the end of this newsletter. It is through the HISH program that the work stream is also looking to advance other initiatives. These initiatives include improved communication between primary care physicians and community service providers as well as escalation and resolution of challenges when they arise. The goal of this program is to decrease the average percentage of HISH program patients who present themselves in our Emergency Department. The Patient, Family and Caregiver Advisory Committee (PFAC) resumed meeting virtually in December 2020. The first order of business was the selection of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx as Chair. Xxxxxxx has over 18 years of experience as Chair for Boards, Committees, and Advisories at the local, provincial and national level in healthcare, education, social services, and knowledge mobilization. This experience includes being Chair of the Consumer Advisory Committee for Mental Health at Halton H...
Palliative Care. Palliative care may be appropriate at any age and any stage in serious illness, and it can be provided together with curative treatments. Palliative care is not Covered under this plan.
Palliative Care. Patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment, who require control of pain and/or other symptom control, taking into account psychological, social and spiritual problems. Note: if a patient currently falls within range 2 but is likely to be in range 3 very soon and is known to the specialist palliative care team they should be fast-tracked for NHS funded care while awaiting a formal funding decision based on current need at the subsequent panel meeting. Care may be provided in their own homes or in a care home. Specialist assessment of people with serious behavioural issues should be required by assessment panels to support this section. This involves overall risk assessment (e.g. violence, self-harm, self-neglect) with additional analysis of context (e.g. triggers), frequency, intensity and the response to interventions. Unpredictability of behaviour, the environment, as well as staff care skills (and numbers) to manage safely may affect the assessment process. Assessors should ensure that such factors do not affect the assessment of need where behaviour issues occur solely in the context of a short-term confusional state (e.g triggered by physical illness).
Palliative Care. If your medical condition is palliative there may come a time when you choose to stop BiPAP therapy. Please discuss this with your Palliative Care Consultant as there are medications that can be prescribed to reduce the sensation of breathlessness during this time. This information will be helpful to us should you need to contact us about your treatment. The key to successful BiPAP therapy is determination and mask hygiene. Mode: IPAP: EPAP: Back up breath rate: Other settings: Type : Full face / Nasal / Nasal pillows Mask manufacturer: Mask name: Specific additions: i.e. Chin strap Next appointment with: Date: Lung Function: Respiratory consultant: Mask – Your mask should be washed in warm soapy water on a daily basis. We recommend that you use a non-perfumed washing up liquid but not Fairy® as it is too strong. Leave to dry in the air on a towel or paper. Do not dry on a source of direct heat such as a radiator. When removing for cleaning you can mark the straps with a pen so you know where to re-attach them. This will blow dry the hose before you use it again.