Family Support Resources

Complex Illness Management is specialized medical care for people living with serious illnesses. It is focused on providing patients with relief from the symptoms and stresses of a serious illness - whatever the diagnosis - and is provided together with all other medical treatments. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and their family.

The mission of St. Luke's Palliative Care program is designed in harmony with the hospital's core values of dignity, compassion, excellence, stewardship and justice. Our purpose is to:

• Offer dignity and quality of life for patients and their families.
• Provide compassionate holistic interdisciplinary care for those with serious illnesses.
• Apply excellent scientific evidence in the relief of pain and other symptoms.
• Advocate and support informed decisions to ensure that patient and family wishes and goals are identified and respected.