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This type of care focuses on improving the quality of life for people with serious illnesses at any stage of the disease.
What is Supportive Care Medicine?
What do the letters PM&R stand for?
What is Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation?
This mental health professional is a medical doctor who can prescribe medications.
Who is a psychiatrist?
This service line provides educational materials, community resources, and information on supportive care to patients and families throughout their cancer journey.
What is the Sheri & Les Biller Patient & Family Resource Center?
This integrative therapy uses hands-on techniques to help reduce tension and promote relaxation.
What is massage therapy?
These discussions help identify a patient's goals, values, and preferences for future healthcare decisions.
What is Advance Care Planning?
This type of exercise is most recommended to combat cancer-related fatigue.
What is Aerobic/Cardio Exercise?
This service primarily focuses on psychotherapy for mental health needs rather than prescribing medications.
Who is a psychologist?
This newly added service validates a patient's Advance Care Directive.
What is Notary Services?
This provider may spend part of a visit discussing protein, hydration, appetite, and meal planning.
Who is the Integrative Dietician?
This procedure delivers medication around irritated nerves to reduce pain and inflammation.
What is a Nerve Block?
The treatment plan from this service line may include walking, stretching, strength assessment/training, and providing guidance on returning to previous function and recreational activity.
What is Exercise Counseling?
This Supportive Care & Integrative Oncology service helps patients harness the power of the mind to support overall well-being.
What is Mind-Body Medicine?
You'll find these helpful and friendly individuals wearing royal blue City of Hope polos throughout LFCC.
Who are our Volunteers?
This provider's treatment toolbox includes needles but not injections.
Who is the acupuncturist?
This phrase describes discussions about what is most important to a patient and how healthcare can align with those priorities.
What are Goals-of-Care discussions?
This PM&R program helps patients build strength and resilience before or during cancer treatment, especially before surgery, stem cell transplant, or CAR-T.
What is prehabilitation (prehab)?
Psychology often uses this treatment to help patients identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This location offers retail items and more to help patients manage appearance-related side effects from cancer treatment.
What is Marybelle's Boutique?
This specialty creates a holistic treatment plan that combines conventional cancer care with complementary therapies for patients to improve overall well-being.
What is Integrative Oncology?
Relief of pain, shortness of breath, nausea, and anxiety are examples of this major goal of Supportive Care Medicine.
What is Symptom Management?
This rehabilitation medicine specialist focuses on restoring function and improving quality of life for patients with conditions affecting the brain, nerves, muscles, and bones. They develop non-surgical treatment plans to reduce pain, improve mobility, and help patients regain independence after injury, illness, or cancer treatment.
Who is a Physiatrist?
A referral to this service line is appropriate for existential distress.
What is Spiritual Care?
Refer to this team first if a patient has questions about Medical Aid in Dying (aka EOLOA).
What is Social Work?
Patients experiencing the physical, emotional, and practical impacts of cancer may be referred to this comprehensive service, where a team of physicians, nurses, social workers, nutritionists, and chaplains collaborates to provide evidence-based interventions focused on symptom management, well-being, and quality of life throughout the cancer journey.
What is Supportive Care and Integrative Oncology?