Our Palliative Care team works with your primary care provider, other medical specialists and a wide range of health-care professionals to care for you and your family.
Palliative care physicians
Palliative care physicians aim to prevent and ease suffering, and improve the quality of life of patients living with serious, life-limiting illness.
Home care physicians
Palliative care physicians from the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care work closely with the palliative care program at Ontario Health at Home. This is the government agency that provides nurses, personal support workers (PSWs) and therapists who will visit you at home to give you basic medical care and supportive care.
Mount Sinai Hospital physicians
Our palliative care physicians and clinical nurse specialist work with the rest of your care team during your hospitalization.
Clinic-based Mount Sinai physicians
Our palliative care physicians see your during your appointments at Mount Sinai and work with the members of your care team who are already involved in your care.
Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital physicians
Palliative care physicians work closely with other members of the Hennick Bridgepoint care team to provide comprehensive care for patients.
Learn more about the physicians, nurses, therapists, dieticians, pharmacists, social workers, spiritual care providers, learners and volunteers who work make up the Hennick Bridgepoint care team.
Nurses
Nurses are essential members of any palliative care team and work with our palliative care physicians to support you and your family in different ways.
At Mount Sinai, a clinical nurse specialist works with the rest of your care team to care for you during periods of hospitalization.
At Hennick Bridgepoint, nurses are core members of the care team who manage most of your day-to-day care.
In our home-care program, nurses from Ontario Health at Home work with our physicians to provide nursing care in your home.
Pharmacists
In a hospital, pharmacists work with physicians and nurses to make sure each patient is getting the right medication. During periods of hospitalization, a pharmacist will review all your medications when you are admitted to make sure any new prescriptions will not interact with what you already take.
Social workers
Hospital social workers help patients and their families arrange for care and services inside and outside the hospital. They can help coordinate the care and services you need, provide counselling and recommend a variety of resources and support services near your home.
Spiritual care providers
A spiritual care provider is a health-care provider with specialized training in helping people cope with illness and death. They can provide you and your caregivers with religious, spiritual and emotional support based on your own core beliefs and values. Our spiritual care providers also organize religious services and can put you in touch with religious groups in the community.
