Southeast Georgia Health System Palliative Care Center provides inpatient and outpatient palliative care in partnership with the Golden Isles Palliative Care.
What is palliative care?
Palliative care is specialized medical care that focuses on relief of the symptoms and stress of serious illness. The goal is to prevent and ease suffering and to improve quality of life for patients and their families. Palliative care is appropriate at any age and any stage of an illness. And it can be provided at the same time as ongoing treatment(s).
Patients and families are offered additional support, unique to their needs, throughout the course of a serious illness. The palliative care team addresses the patient's physical pain or symptoms and emotional and spiritual needs with the goal develop the best treatment plan for the patient during an illness as well as provide comfort, stability and peace of mind.
These programs coordinate with patients and families with extra support and the opportunity to discuss and establish the goals of care. The care team works with the patient and family to establish a plan of care, which can include aggressive treatment. Palliative care is available to patients undergoing treatment, patients enrolled in clinical trials and patients near the end of life.
The Southeast Georgia Health System Palliative Care Center includes inpatient and outpatient palliative care services. These programs coordinate with the patient’s attending physician to provide patients and families with extra support and the opportunity to discuss and establish the goals of care. Appointments at the Palliative Care Center are made following a physician referral. The Palliative Care Center is located in the Southeast Georgia Health System Outpatient Care Center on the Brunswick campus.
For more information, please call 912-466-5190.