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What is the Tertiary Palliative Care
Unit?
This is a unit at the Grey Nuns Hospital
for people having very difficult symptoms such as severe pain.
The Unit serves all of northern Alberta.
As a person's symptoms improve, he
or she will move to home
or to one of the hospices.
This planning is done with the person, family and staff.
How do people come to the Tertiary Palliative
Care Unit?
- the person's doctor
or one of the palliative care
consultants can make a referral for admission to the
unit.
- Palliative care specialists provide
the medical care on the unit
- family doctors can visit at any
time
- When a person leaves the unit,
the family doctor
is called.
Where is the Tertiary Palliative Care
Unit?
- The Tertiary Palliative Care Unit
is Unit 43 at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital For more
information call 735-7408.
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