Palliative Care and Hospice

With donor support, MultiCare palliative care and hospice offer customizable services that ensure future wishes and desires are met throughout a patient’s health care journey, regardless of their financial situation.

Helping people live a better life

Beginning when patients are healthy, Advance Care Planning (ACP) ensures that treatment and overall health care align with patients’ goals, values and wishes.

These donor-funded ACP conversations help by:

• Expanding the conversation beyond an initial consult
• Offering broader community education on the importance of planning ahead
• Reducing accrued health care costs

Palliative care

For individuals experiencing a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, palliative care services provide additional care during treatment and help ease suffering. Since these customizable, comforting offerings aren’t always covered by insurance, donations can help fill the gaps.

Hospice: Respectful, compassionate end-of-life care

For individuals entering the final phases of a terminal illness, hospice care provides support to help patients manage their pain and other symptoms. This includes soothing therapies that seek to improve quality of life, including music therapy, massage, aromatherapy and more. Philanthropy also funds bereavement support for families grieving an illness or death of someone close to them.

Through community generosity, patients can live out their final days the way they choose.

With your gift to palliative care and hospice, more people will have peace of mind knowing their intentions will be honored throughout their lifetime. More families will have the confidence to speak on their loved one’s behalf. More physicians will recognize the best way to tailor treatment, while respecting patients’ wishes.

With your gift, we can provide better, more dignified care.