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CPMC Palliative Care

Dealing with a serious illness takes a physical and emotional toll on you. Palliative care professionals at California Pacific Medical Center can help. You’ll find relief from the symptoms, pain and stress of your illness so that you can live each day fully.

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Living Well with Serious Illness

It’s tough to live with the complex challenges of a serious condition, such as cancer, advanced heart, lung or kidney disease, or dementia. When you need relief from the symptoms, side effects and stress of your diagnosis and treatments, turn to turn to California Pacific Medical Center’s nationally recognized, effective palliative care teams.

Palliative care helps you and your loved ones address a wide range of physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs. It’s appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, and you can receive it at the same time as curative treatments.

At CPMC, our palliative care professionals provide team-based support that includes:

  • Physician expertise and medication management to alleviate pain (PDF) and other symptoms that interfere with your quality of life, such as fatigue, shortness of breath, constipation, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and more.
  • Care coordination with your healthcare providers and caregivers.
  • Referrals to home health services and advanced illness management (AIM).
  • Coming Home Hospice, a residential hospice program providing care and support for people facing terminal illness and their families.
  • Education and support regarding your diagnosis and plan of care.
  • Psychosocial comfort to ease loneliness, fears, stress, isolation and other issues.

Your palliative care team may include specially trained doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers and other specialists as needed. These experienced staff help you live each day comfortably and according to your wishes. In addition to supporting your immediate physical and mental needs, the palliative care team coordinates care with your goals and wishes. Care may be provided at home, in the hospital or in a clinic.

Helpful Resources

  • Advance Healthcare Directive: Making Your Wishes Known
  • Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

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Give to Hospice and Palliative Care at CPMC

Learn about giving opportunities in end of life care. 100% of your gift goes directly to the CPMC program that most inspires you.

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Home Health Care

If you’re recuperating from a serious illness or facing a chronic condition, get comforting care with home health services in the Sutter Health network. Our visiting nurses, speech and occupational therapists, and other healthcare professionals deliver high-quality, personalized care at home to meet your needs.

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Advance Healthcare Directives

Find out how an advance healthcare directive ensures your doctors and family members can follow your healthcare wishes if you are unable to speak for yourself.

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Pain Research

Sutter Health Pain Research
In medicine, pain relates to the perception of a sensation that hurts. Only the person who is experiencing the pain can describe it properly. Research seeks to understand all types of pain, how to stop it or how to lessen it to improve a person’s quality of life.

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Providers at California Pacific Medical Center

The following doctors are part of the Sutter Health network. Learn about the doctors on this site.
Silvia A. McCandlish, M.D.

Silvia A. McCandlish, M.D.

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Phillip C. So, M.D.

Phillip C. So, M.D.

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Laura A. Battle, M.D.

Laura A. Battle, M.D.

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Melissa M. Goebel, M.D.

Melissa M. Goebel, M.D.

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Monica A. Rosenthal, M.D.

Monica A. Rosenthal, M.D.

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Catherine A. Seeley, M.D.

Catherine A. Seeley, M.D.

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

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Services Near You

CPMC Davies Campus

CPMC Davies Campus

Castro and Duboce Streets

San Francisco, CA 94114

(415) 600-6000

CPMC Pacific Heights Outpatient Center | 2333 Buchanan Street

CPMC Pacific Heights Outpatient Center | 2333 Buchanan Street

2333 Buchanan Street

San Francisco, CA 94115

(415) 600-6000

CPMC Coming Home Hospice

CPMC Coming Home Hospice

115 Diamond Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

(415) 861-1110

CPMC Mission Bernal Campus & Orthopedic Institute

CPMC Mission Bernal Campus & Orthopedic Institute

3555 Cesar Chavez Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

(415) 600-6000

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