The Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center provides an environment of personal support with concern for patient and family needs.
Advanced Practice Nurse
When an individual is diagnosed with cancer, a Parkview advanced practice nurse in oncology is available to address any immediate questions and concerns. The advanced practice nurse meets with the patient and family to help them understand the patient’s particular type of cancer and its treatment. She also helps the individual in coping with the diagnosis of cancer. Information about various community resources is provided as well. The nurse also introduces the patient and family to the care coordinators.
Case Management/Care Coordination/Social Services
The Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center provides care coordination of healthcare services to support and meet the needs of the cancer patient.
Chaplaincy
Parkview offers the services of chaplains around the clock to pray with patients and their families, discuss spiritual matters or concerns and/or provide spiritual resources.
Hospital chapels are located on the first floor of Parkview North Hospital and on the second floor of Parkview Hospital, just above the main lobby. Each chapel is available for quiet reflection or meditation 24 hours a day. During times of waiting, family members are also welcome to use the quiet room across from the chapel at Parkview Hospital.
Home Health and Hospice
Hospice provides support and care for individuals in the last months of an incurable disease to help them live as full and comfortable a life as possible. The program provides state-of-the-art comfort and supportive care with dignity to individuals and their families and caregivers. Hospice staff members coordinate services through acute-care hospitals and cancer centers in the region to provide continuity for each patient.
Parkview Home Health & Hospice addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patients and families it serves. The medically directed team of professionals and volunteers treats the whole person during the end stages of the illness and stays in contact with the family and caregivers for 13 months following their loved one’s death.
Services include:
- Traditional home care and hospice
- Infusion
- Respiratory therapy
- Provision of medical equipment
These services may be provided in the patient’s home, in an extended-care facility or in cooperation with the local inpatient hospice facility.
Cancer Resource Libraries
Internet access and other information resources for cancer patients and their families are provided at the cancer libraries at both the Radiation Oncology Center on the Parkview North campus and the inpatient oncology unit at Parkview Hospital.