Supportive and Palliative Care Program
Williamson Health's palliative care program provides support and comfort to seriously ill patients and their families. This type of care focuses on improving quality of life by relieving symptoms, pain and stress.
What is palliative care?
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Palliative care is provided by a team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists who work with a patient’s other doctors to provide an extra layer of support.
Palliative care is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, and can be provided together with curative treatment.
Why is palliative care important?
Palliative care is an extra layer of support intended to help patients and their families manage symptoms of their current illness, such as nausea, pain, constipation and stress, and to help manage plans for the future by understanding what to expect.
Palliative care does not replace any of the patient’s current physicians. The palliative care team at Williamson Health includes social workers/case managers, pharmacists, chaplains, registered nurses and dietitians, physicians and physician assistants.
Supportive and Palliative Care Program at Williamson Health
- 4323 Carothers Pkwy, Suite 500
Franklin, TN 37067
(615) 790-4145
Patient Resources
- Williamson Medical Center is enrolled in the National Palliative Care Registry™.
- Click HERE to learn more about palliative care
- Please talk to your doctor for more information about Williamson Health's palliative care program.
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