Palliative Care Team
From our complementary perspectives our team works together on your behalf to provide an extra layer of holistic and personalized support for very effective symptom management.
Nightingale Medical offers team-coordinated televisit medical and non-medical therapeutic sessions to patients seeking support for advanced illness symptom management and for those under hospice care. There are many issues pressing on patients and their families dealing with advanced illness and we are here to help with planning and symptom management where it is most helpful—in the home via televisit.. We believe healthcare should be safe, personal, convenient and economical. Our emphasis is on quality and wellbeing and we are open to engaging with both traditional and alternative medical treatments.
As a team comprised of a physician, chaplain, social worker, and nurse, we consult and coordinate a needs assessment for each special client patient before preparing a dynamic plan for individualized holistic support. That can also include integration with a patient’s existing physicians, specialists, clergy, and other providers. We dedicate our services to only 15 clients at a time who live in either Ulster or Dutchess Counties.
Personalized Palliative Care Services
Guided by your personal goals for care and quality of life, we partner with you to provide personalized symptom management support. And, we help families connect and engage, in-person and through video-conference.
Aligned with your unique goals of care and concerns, patients benefit from our team’s extensive toolkit of medical and non-medical services for highly effective symptom management and improved quality of life. Our team works with patients and their families to best understand diagnoses and advice from multiple physicians, to integrate a plethora of medications, and to offer complementary approaches proven effective for easing the experience of living with advanced illness. Symptoms to manage may include pain or despair, anxiety, insomnia, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, exhaustion, confusion, depression, and more. Depending upon need, we may include additional or different medication and/or complementary approaches including: interfaith spiritual care and meaning-making, healing arts such as yoga therapy, meditation, or breathwork, and/or support for preparation of important key documents and access to community resources. Support may involve facilitating family meetings in-home or through providing peace-of-mind connections via online video conferences.
Personal Needs Assessment
Along with the patient and family, our Palliative Care Team identifies what additional support might be beneficial and available. It may be medication management, healing arts, spiritual care, nutrition, medical equipment, companionship, or personal care. We determine whether or not important documentation has been completed and shared with key people; these may include Advanced Directives, Five Wishes, Living Wills, and MOLST forms. We create a dynamic plan and support you to achieve your quality of life and symptom management goals.
Spiritual Care & Healing Arts
Spiritual Care and Healing Arts such as yoga therapy, meditation, energy medicine, and aromatherapy for symptom management and well-being may be suggested.
Interfaith Spiritual Care and complementary healing arts modalities are highly effective in easing symptoms, helping to find meaning through the challenges of aging and illness, improving quality of life, and significantly enhancing spiritual/emotional/physical well-being. Offerings include interfaith spiritual care and healing arts such as yoga therapy, meditation, breathwork, sound therapy, energy medicine, and can recommend resources for music therapy, pet therapy, creative expression, massage therapy, and much more. Patients and families decide what support they would welcome and how often they want it scheduled.
Medical Marijuana Certification
In addition to traditional medication prescriptives, alternative forms of medication for symptom management are available to certifiable patients.
Medical Marijuana has proven to be highly effective in managing symptoms of pain, anxiety, nausea, and insomnia. Dr. Carpenter will take appointments in New Paltz to certify for medical marijuana but needs copies of medical records, in advance, attesting to the certifying medical conditions faxed prior to the appointment. Fax 845-259-1227.