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Mission Health
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2017/11 - November
CarePartners (an affiliate of Mission Health) provides compassionate hospice and palliative care for patients and families served by Highlands-Cashiers Hospital.
No one should have to face end-of-life decisions or a chronic illness alone. CarePartners Hospice and Palliative Care offers physical, emotional and spiritual support to patients with life-limiting or terminal illness. They’re dedicated to treating patients and their loved ones with respect and compassion, and to providing the highest quality of life and comfort possible.
Many ask what palliative care means.
“Palliative care is pain management and comfort care for patients in any stage of a chronic and life-limiting illness,” says Dr. Mike Parmer, System Medical Director, Post Acute and Palliative Care Services.
How does this differ from hospice care?
“All people with a terminal prognosis of six months or less are eligible for hospice care,” says Dr. Parmer. “In reality, by engaging with hospice at an earlier time in the end-stage trajectory of the disease, the hospice team is able to provide for good symptom management and support that allows a person to stay engaged with family and friends, and design a positive end-of-life experience.”
Hospice care can be provided at home, at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, the Eckerd Living Center in Highlands or at CarePartners inpatient Solace Center in Asheville.
Hospice is able to help patients and families navigate these difficult times with support through physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs, and the expertise of the interdisciplinary team.
“It is a personal choice that can provide for improved quality of life, and in many cases, patients enrolled in hospice live longer than those patients with similar disease that are not enrolled in hospice,” says Dr. Parmer.
If you reside in Macon County and need Hospice care, please call (828) 369-4206.
