Avera Medical Group Palliative Medicine

Palliative Medicine

Palliative care is available to loved ones dealing with a serious illness.

Reduce Suffering, Maximize Life

If you are dealing with a painful and serious illness, special care is available to help control your symptoms and stress and make you more comfortable right now. Palliative medicine is the specialty focused on relief of the pain and other symptoms of serious, life-threatening illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for patients and their families. Palliative medicine is appropriate at any point in an illness. It can be provided at the same time as curative treatment.