St. Joseph Heritage Orange – Palliative Care
Our palliative care team helps you live more comfortably with a serious illness – easing pain, symptoms and stress at any age and any stage, whether you're in active treatment or managing a long-term condition.
Our Approach
If you or a loved one are managing a serious illness, St. Joseph Heritage Orange – Palliative Care offers comforting support when you need it most. Palliative care relieves or soothes symptoms of a disease or disorder while maintaining the highest possible quality of life – for people of any age, at any stage. Importantly, it's not end-of-life care. Unlike hospice care, palliative care can be provided at any point during an illness and alongside curative care.
How We Help
Our proactive approach to symptom management helps you gain the strength to carry on with daily life, tolerate medical treatments more comfortably and manage symptoms of long-term illness. Our board-certified palliative care physicians honor your quality of life, working alongside specially trained nurse practitioners and social workers. Through this multidisciplinary approach, your care team discusses your and your family's goals and coordinates treatment across disciplines to ensure the highest quality of care.
Our Services, Conditions and Treatments
Services
- Palliative Care
Treatments
- Supportive Therapies
Insurance Accepted
This information provides an overview of accepted insurance plan types for new patients. Coverage may vary by specific plan. Please verify with your insurance provider before visiting us for care. Established patients should call to verify insurance acceptance.
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PPO
- Aetna PPO
- Anthem Blue Cross HMO
- Anthem Blue Cross Medicare Advantage
- Anthem Blue Cross Medicare PPO
- Anthem Blue Cross PPO
- Blue Shield of CA HMO
- Blue Shield of CA HMO - Trio
- Blue Shield of CA Medicare Advantage
- Blue Shield of CA PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Coventry/First Health PPO
- Health Net - Medicare Advantage
- Health Net HMO
- Health Net PPO
- HealthSmart (Interplan) PPO
- Multiplan PPO
- Providence Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
- SCAN Medicare Advantage
- TriWest - Tricare
- United Healthcare HMO
- United Healthcare PPO
- US Family Health Plan - TriCare
- Vivity by Anthem Blue Cross
Meet the Team
St. Joseph Heritage Orange – Palliative Care
845 W. La Veta, Suite 101, Orange, California 92868
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Frequently Asked Questions
You may benefit from palliative care if you have a serious illness or face complex medical decisions.
Your palliative care team can:
- Help plan care for serious conditions such as cancer, heart disease, dementia and kidney failure
- Relieve discomfort and shortness of breath related to serious illness
- Support medical decisions and future care planning
If you or your family want to learn more about palliative care, ask your doctor or nurse for a referral. We offer inpatient and limited outpatient consultations to assess your goals of care and help manage symptoms such as pain, nausea, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, constipation and breathing difficulties.
Your palliative and supportive care team includes these and other health care professionals:
- Advanced practice providers (APP)
- Chaplains
- Nurse practitioners (NP)
- Palliative doctors
- Physician assistants (PA)
- Registered nurses (RN)
- Social workers
Palliative care is comfort care that may be provided at any time, from diagnosis through early or late stages of illness. Hospice care includes palliative care but is reserved for the last six months of life. Hospice care helps relieve pain and discomfort while improving quality of life.
Your care team will guide you through care options and available alternatives for you and your family.
Your doctor and specialists can help you understand your condition, treatment options and available support. They may recommend palliative care, or you can ask for a referral for a consultation.
Palliative care may help if you or a loved one are facing challenges such as:
- A diagnosis of a serious or life-limiting illness affecting major organs or body systems, such as the heart, brain, lungs, liver or kidneys.
- A condition that may shorten life expectancy or require complex, ongoing care.
- Questions about what to expect or uncertainty about the future.
- Difficulty making medical decisions and a need for support and guidance in understanding options.