INTEGRIS Health Palliative Care

Comfort and support to meet your goals of care

If you or someone you love lives with a serious or complex illness, palliative care can help, regardless of your age or the stage of illness.  INTEGRIS Palliative Care, a program to help you find relief from pain, symptoms and to achieve your goals of care. 

What is palliative care?

The INTEGRIS Health Palliative Care team includes physicians, advanced practice nurses (APRN), registered nurses (RN) and social workers who will assist the patient and family by improving their quality of life through assessment of pain, symptom relief and identifying treatment options available to the patient.  All along the way we will provide support as the patient and family cope with the emotional, spiritual and physical changes of an advanced chronic illness. 

Palliative, the word itself, translates as “to cloak”, to provide a remedy or relief and is pronounced (pal-lee-uh-tiv)

What Does Palliative Care Include?

• Medical care at any stage of illness
• Enhanced symptom control
• Continuation of curative treatment
• Collaborates with other providers
• Enhanced quality of life
• Coordinate care with other disciplines
• Transition into hospice care

If you or your loved one has the following: Any chronic life-limiting illness, for example: advanced cancer or cardiac disease. Ask your doctor or the nurse to notify the INTEGRIS Health Palliative Care service by calling 405-603-6928. 

Where Is Care Provided:

• Home
• Hospital
• Out-patient physician clinics
• Long term care facilities
• Phone consultations
• Telemedicine