Palliative Care
Compassionate Care Through All of Life’s Stages – It’s Our Mission.
Our Comfort Care program combines compassion, service, and palliative care for residents facing a serious illness or in their final stages of life, and their families.
Dignity. Respect. Comfort. Care
At St. Luke, palliative care is about teamwork with an emphasis on comfort, quality of life, and control of pain/symptoms.
Our medical, nursing, social services, nutritional, and pastoral care team work with residents, family members, and caregivers to ensure physical comfort and to meet their social, personal, financial, and emotional needs.
Comfort Care provides:
- Pain/symptom management
- Resident counseling and consultation
- Access/coordination of additional resources
- 24-hour skilled and compassionate nursing
- 24-hour visitation
- Specialized medical care
- Nutritional needs overseen by our Registered Dietitian
- Individual and family support/counseling
- Recreation and therapy
- Pastoral care services
For more information or to schedule a tour, please contact the St. Luke Admission Coordinator today by phone (315) 342-3166 or online.