What We Do Palliative Care Awareness & Engagement
We work to raise awareness about palliative care and share insights from community with palliative care providers so that they can address the unique needs of our communities with sensitivity and respect for their cultural and spiritual traditions and needs.
What We Do Palliative Care Awareness & Engagement
We work to raise awareness about palliative care and share insights from community with palliative care providers so that they can address the unique needs of our communities with sensitivity and respect for their cultural and spiritual traditions and needs.
What is Palliative Care?
Please watch the video "Extra Supports for People with Serious Illness" produced by the California Health Care Foundation. In this video, Dr. Anne Kinderman, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses how palliative care helps improve the quality of life for people facing serious illness.
What is Palliative Care?
Please watch the video "Extra Supports for People with Serious Illness" produced by the California Health Care Foundation. In this video, Dr. Anne Kinderman, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses how palliative care helps improve the quality of life for people facing serious illness.
什麼是安寧療護？
請觀看加州醫療保健基金會製作的影片「為重症患者提供額外支持」。 在這段影片中，舊金山加州大學醫學臨床教授 Anne Kinderman 博士討論了安寧療護如何幫助改善面臨嚴重疾病的人們的生活品質。
“I need help with all that surrounds my illness or the illness of a person I care about.”
“I need help with all that surrounds my illness or the illness of a person I care about.”
“我需要關於疾病的所有幫助，不論是我本人患病，還是我所照顧的人。”
When a person's illness impacts their daily function or quality of life, or when caring for that person excessively strains their caregiver, palliative care can help. It is available to people regardless of age and can be helpful at any stage in a chronic or serious illness.
Palliative care focuses on providing relief from the stress, symptoms and side effects of a serious illness. While your doctors are working on curing your disease or making you well, palliative care focuses on your quality of life, helping you to live well, feel better and do the things that are important to you.
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life for both you and your family and takes into account not just physical suffering but also mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual suffering that often accompanies serious illness. Palliative care supports you to be able to live your best life while battling illness.
Through healthcare systems, palliative care is often provided by a specially trained team of physicians, nurses, social workers and chaplains who work together with a person's other doctors to provide support. See our palliative care medical provider list below.
Many local agencies also offer services to their community members that can relieve suffering and stress on patients and families in their time of need. These supportive care services help ease the additional burdens that come alongside illness.
Palliative Care Resources Through Medical Providers
Palliative care can be provided inpatient, when someone is hospitalized, or outpatient, at home or via clinics or telehealth. Most Bay Area health care systems have palliative care departments in the hospital, and many also offer palliative care in the clinic or at home. Ask your physician to make a referral to your health system's palliative care department.
UCSF Palliative Medicine UCSF has both inpatient and outpatient palliative care services, both for patients with cancer and patients with other serious illnesses.
San Francisco VA Palliative Care The San Francisco Veterans Administration has both inpatient palliative care services and an outpatient palliative care clinic. Referrals can be made through both VA Primary and Specialty providers.
Palliative Care at Sutter CPMC Sutter CPMC provides palliative care through its inpatient program, and also has an outpatient program that includes a clinic and a home program for Advanced Illness Management. Patients can ask their doctor or nurse for a referral.
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco All Kaiser members with serious illness are eligible for palliative care services. Kaiser offers both inpatient and outpatient clinic palliative care. Patients may request a referral from their primary physician or a physician or nurse from any specialty.
Palliative Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) ZSFG has both inpatient and outpatient palliative care services, both for patients with cancer and patients with other serious illnesses.
Palliative Care Supportive Services in the Community
If you are having trouble accessing palliative care resources through your health system, there are other private community resources that can help you get the care you need.
Mettle Health Mettle Health provides online palliative and holistic care to anyone living in the United States without a doctor's referral.
Alameda County Care Alliance AC Care Alliance offers non-medical serious illness services in San Francisco. Services include advance care planning, caregiver support, emotional and spiritual support, and referrals to social services most needed by people facing serious illness. AC Care Alliance provides services to all people dealing serious illness and specializes in offering support people in need of care and their caregivers, with a focus on serving the Black and Latinx communities.
When a person's illness impacts their daily function or quality of life, or when caring for that person excessively strains their caregiver, palliative care can help. It is available to people regardless of age and can be helpful at any stage in a chronic or serious illness.
Palliative care focuses on providing relief from the stress, symptoms and side effects of a serious illness. While your doctors are working on curing your disease or making you well, palliative care focuses on your quality of life, helping you to live well, feel better and do the things that are important to you.
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life for both you and your family and takes into account not just physical suffering but also mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual suffering that often accompanies serious illness. Palliative care supports you to be able to live your best life while battling illness.
Through healthcare systems, palliative care is often provided by a specially trained team of physicians, nurses, social workers and chaplains who work together with a person's other doctors to provide support. See our palliative care medical provider list below.
Many local agencies also offer services to their community members that can relieve suffering and stress on patients and families in their time of need. These supportive care services help ease the additional burdens that come alongside illness.
Palliative Care Resources Through Medical Providers
Palliative care can be provided inpatient, when someone is hospitalized, or outpatient, at home or via clinics or telehealth. Most Bay Area health care systems have palliative care departments in the hospital, and many also offer palliative care in the clinic or at home. Ask your physician to make a referral to your health system's palliative care department.
UCSF Palliative Medicine UCSF has both inpatient and outpatient palliative care services, both for patients with cancer and patients with other serious illnesses.
San Francisco VA Palliative Care The San Francisco Veterans Administration has both inpatient palliative care services and an outpatient palliative care clinic. Referrals can be made through both VA Primary and Specialty providers.
Palliative Care at Sutter CPMC Sutter CPMC provides palliative care through its inpatient program, and also has an outpatient program that includes a clinic and a home program for Advanced Illness Management. Patients can ask their doctor or nurse for a referral.
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco All Kaiser members with serious illness are eligible for palliative care services. Kaiser offers both inpatient and outpatient clinic palliative care. Patients may request a referral from their primary physician or a physician or nurse from any specialty.
Mettle Health Mettle Health offers a new perspective and approach to palliative care; helping patients, caregivers, and their families navigate the practical, emotional, and existential concerns related to chronic and serious illness, disability, grief, and death. In other words, all the critical issues that go largely unaddressed by the healthcare system. Mettle is set up to provide support and guidance to anyone facing a short term health concern or managing a serious Illness by addressing immediate needs, or helping to plan for, and navigate, the road ahead. Through an interdisciplinary virtual care team of doctors, nurses, social workers and chaplains, Mettle provides coaching, expectation setting, self advocacy training, and a safe place to make sound decisions. Mettle is not a replacement for traditional medical care; rather it provides professional guidance and insights on how to manage life both inside, and outside, traditional healthcare settings.
Palliative Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) ZSFG has both inpatient and outpatient palliative care services, both for patients with cancer and patients with other serious illnesses.
Palliative Care Supportive Services in the Community
If you are having trouble accessing palliative care resources through your health system, there are other private community resources that can help you get the care you need.
Mettle Health Mettle Health offers a new perspective and approach to palliative care; helping patients, caregivers, and their families navigate the practical, emotional, and existential concerns related to chronic and serious illness, disability, grief, and death. In other words, all the critical issues that go largely unaddressed by the healthcare system. Mettle is set up to provide support and guidance to anyone facing a short term health concern or managing a serious Illness by addressing immediate needs, or helping to plan for, and navigate, the road ahead. Through an interdisciplinary virtual care team of doctors, nurses, social workers and chaplains, Mettle provides coaching, expectation setting, self advocacy training, and a safe place to make sound decisions. Mettle is not a replacement for traditional medical care; rather it provides professional guidance and insights on how to manage life both inside, and outside, traditional healthcare settings.
Alameda County Care Alliance AC Care Alliance offers non-medical serious illness services in San Francisco. Services include advance care planning, caregiver support, emotional and spiritual support, and referrals to social services most needed by people facing serious illness. AC Care Alliance provides services to all people dealing serious illness and specializes in offering support people in need of care and their caregivers, with a focus on serving the Black and Latinx communities.
當一個人的疾病影響到他們的日程生活和生活質量的時候，或者當照顧此人令護理人員疲於奔命的時候，緩和療護可以提供幫助。緩和療護可以向任何年齡的人士提供，而且對任何階段的長期或嚴重疾病均有幫助。
緩和療護專注於緩和嚴重疾病所帶來的緊張、症狀以及副作用。當您的醫生爲您治療疾病或者改善您病情的時候，緩和療護專注於您的生活質量，幫助您更好地生活，感覺更加良好以及可以處理對您而言非常重要的事情。
緩和療護專門為患上嚴重疾病的人士提供醫療護理。這種療護專注於紓緩疾病的症狀和帶來的焦慮。目的是提高病人以及其家人生活的質量。
緩和療護的目的是提高您和家人的生活質量，並且考慮到除了生理上的痛楚，還有經常會伴隨著疾病而來，在精神上、情感上、心理上和情緒上的痛楚。緩和療護讓您可以在對抗疾病的同時，過上您最好的生活。
透過醫療系統，緩和療護經常是由受過特殊培訓的醫生、護士、社工和牧師所組成的團隊提供，他們還會與個人的其他醫生一起合作提供支援。請參考以下我們的緩和療護醫療提供者名單。
許多本地機構也會為他們的社區居民提供服務，在病人和其家人有需要的時候緩和他們的痛楚和焦慮。這類的支援護理服務可以幫助消除疾病所帶來的額外負擔。
透過醫療提供者的緩和療護資源
當某人住院時，可以在住院病人中提供安寧療護，也可以在家中或透過診所或遠距醫療在門診病人中提供安寧療護。 大多數灣區醫療保健系統在醫院設有安寧療護部門，許多還在診所或家中提供安寧療護。 請您的醫師轉介至您的衛生系統的安寧療護部門。
三藩市加大緩和醫藥部門 三藩市加大設有住院和門診緩和療護服務，為癌症患者和其他患有嚴重疾病的病人所設。
三藩市退伍軍人緩和療護 三藩市退伍軍人管理局設有住院和門診緩和療護診所。可以透過退伍軍人管理局和專科醫生作出轉介。
Sutter加州太平洋醫療中心緩和療護 Sutter加州太平洋醫療中心透過其住院計劃提供緩和療護，同時也設有門診計劃包括為預設疾病管理而設的一個診所和居家計劃。
三藩市凱撒醫院 所有患有嚴重疾病的凱撒醫療會員都合資格參加緩和療護服務。凱撒提供住院和門診緩和療護。病人可以要求他們的家庭醫生或者其他專科醫生或護士作出轉介。
祖克柏舊金山綜合醫院 (ZSFG) 的安寧療護 ZSFG 為癌症患者和其他嚴重疾病的患者提供住院和門診安寧療護服務。
社區安寧療護支援服務
如果您在透過醫療系統取得安寧療護資源時遇到困難，還有其他私人社區資源可以幫助您獲得所需的照護。