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Compassionate Care Palliative and Supportive Care provides specialized medical care for serious illnesses and diseases, including advanced kidney failure or heart disease. Palliative Care helps to: Prevent and relieve suffering to help build the best possible quality of life. Add value to standard therapies by assisting with advanced illness planning and symptom management. Palliative & Supportive Care may be needed if: You've had multiple hospital admissions for severe illness. Severe pain, nausea, fatigue or other symptoms impacting quality of life and you are reconsidering treatment plans. Treatments are no longer working. You're feeling hapless or discouraged about the future due to your serious illness. Talk to your doctor to find out if palliative care is the right choice for you or your family member.   Your Care Team Your palliative care support team comprises doctors, nurses, chaplains, social workers and other specialists who work together with you to provide extra support. Your care team can help: Facilitate close communication between you and your physician team, as well as nurses and specialists. Offer medical assessments and symptom management to help reduce pain, nausea, fatigue, shortness of breath and anxiety. Improve the ability to tolerate medical treatments and fain the strength to live a productive daily life. Explain treatment options and the decision making process regarding care. Navigate the healthcare process. Lend emotional and spiritual support.

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Compassionate Care in the Comfort of Your Home When you or someone you love has a life-limiting illness and is ready to focus on comfort over treatment, it may be time to consider hospice. Hospice care is specialized care that provides physical comfort and emotional, social and spiritual support for those near the end of life. At Renown Hospice, we use a family-centered approach to provide quality of life care in the comfort of home. We know that the decision to pursue hospice is one of the most challenging times – please note our team is available 24/7 to answer any questions. The Renown Hospice Difference Renown Hospice is the only not-for-profit hospice in the region, founded on a mission to care for and support those in our community.  We take the time to listen and respond to each patient’s own definition of quality of life and specific care needs. We’re proud to be one of the highest rated quality care and experience agencies in northern Nevada

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