End Of Life Care
Cobble Hill Center provides treatment that enhances comfort and
the quality of an individual’s life during the last phase of
life. Our Palliative Care Program is a philosophy of care that accepts
dying as a natural part of life. When death is inevitable, palliative
care seeks neither to hasten nor postpone it.
At
the center of palliative care is the belief that each of us has
the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our families
will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so.
We
offer a Palliative Care Program designed to ease the outcome of
a terminal diagnosis by providing relief from distressing symptoms,
by providing pain management therapy and by focused treatment so
the patient is kept as comfortable as possible. An interdisciplinary
team gives patients and families living with a life-threatening
or terminal illness, care that is focused on alleviating suffering
and promoting quality of life. Major concerns are pain and symptom
management, information sharing and advance care planning, psychosocial
and spiritual support, and coordination of care.
At Cobble Hill, the patient’s
needs are assessed and all treatment options are explored and evaluated
in the context
of the individual’s values and symptoms. Our trained staff
is sensitive to the patient’s choices and decisions regarding
the course of care.
What Is Palliative Care?
Cobble Hill Health Center’s Palliative Care Services provide
medical care and emotional and spiritual support to people and their
families who face life-limiting illness.
A compassionate approach to care that helps people with serious
illness live life fully, maintain their dignity and keep personal
control over their lives. Available to anyone with an illness
whose life expectancy is measured in months, rather than years.
A family-centered approach that includes, a team of doctors,
nurses, social workers, counselors, and trained volunteers who
collaboratively focus on the dying patient’s physical, psychological,
or spiritual needs.
A symptom management approach that helps keep the patient as
pain-free and lucid as possible, with loved ones nearby until
death.
Why Palliative Care?
Unique physical, emotional, spiritual, social and financial needs
occur during the final phases of life-limiting illness. Cobble Hill’s
Palliative Care Team is comprised of experienced, skilled specialists
who work with the attending physician and family to develop care
which meets the patient/family needs and wishes. The focus is on
caring, not curing.
Who Uses Palliative Care?
Palliative Care serves persons of any age with any life-limiting
illness. Among the illnesses our patients have had are: cancer,
cardiac disease, Alzheimer’s disease, renal disease, neurological
illnesses, Lou Gehrig's disease, cirrhosis.
When Is The Right Time To Think About Cobble
Hill’s
Palliative Care Program?
At any time during a life-limiting illness, when curative treatments
are no longer effective, palliative care treatments for comfort
care are usually indicated.
Cobble Hill's palliative care philosophy recognizes that our residents
have come to consider this facility their home and our staff part
of their extended family. Our innovative program allows terminally
ill residents to continue to live in a familiar environment while
receiving additional services.
Cobble Hill is one of the few skilled nursing facilities in New
York City to offer Palliative Care. To discuss a referral, obtain
additional information, or arrange for a tour, please contact the
Director of Admissions at 718-855-6789, extension 110.
All services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid & most managed
care contracts. We also accept private pay.
