Palliative Care Clinics
Providence Healthcare
Name of organization: Palliative Care program at Unity Health Toronto
Location and address, phone, email
- Location: 3276 St Clair Ave E, 3rd Fl, D Wing, Toronto, ON M1L 1W1
33-bed Palliative Care Unit located on the 3rd Floor of the D-Wing, Providence Healthcare
Tel: (416) 285-3744
Services provided
- Management of distressing end-of-life symptoms like pain
- Compassionate care to address the physical, emotional, spiritual and practical needs of patients and their families
How do you access them? Referral process?
- Physician referral is required. To make a referral, the form must be completed
Scarborough Health Network – Centenary Hospital
Program Name: Palliative Care Program at Scarborough Health Network (SHN)
- Scarborough Health Network – Centenary Hospital
2867 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough, ON M1E 4B9
Suite 106, 1st Floor (across from the oncology clinic)
416-284-8131 ext. 503
Services provided
- Inpatient Palliative Care Clinic located at the General Hospital
- The unit supports people with any life-limiting condition who need hospital admission for acute, palliative care supportive interventions
Typical inpatient stay is for a short period of time (<1 month) - Staffed by seasoned, expert palliative care nurses, nurses newer to the specialty, and a multi-professional team that focuses on comfort, quality of life and goal-focused care
Assessment, consultation, support, and end of life care - Unit includes warmly decorated private and semi-private patient rooms; patients, families and caregivers have access to a bright kitchenette, a quiet room reserved for prayer, meditation or counselling that patients and families can use for comfort
- Pain/symptom management education, palliative education, patient/family teaching and support
- The unit supports people with any life-limiting condition who need hospital admission for acute, palliative care supportive interventions
- Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
- Help patients with a palliative diagnosis to manage their symptoms while living at home or in the community
- Trained professionals with expertise in pain and symptom management, including assessment, consultation and treatment, and ongoing follow-up care as needed for fatigue,
- depression, nausea, shortness of breath, etc.
- Advanced care planning to help in discussing decisions around future health and personal care
- Supportive care, counselling and multi-faith services to aid families coping with grief, anxiety and stress
- Referrals and links to community supports
- Assistance in facilitating admission into a palliative care unit when appropriate
- Palliative Consultation Service
- For people who are inpatients at SHN
- Those with a life-limiting condition/illness can be supported by our specialist palliative physicians and nurse coordinators working collaboratively with inpatient team
- The team provides assessment, consultation, support with pain or other distressing symptoms, and end-of-life care
- Palliative Nurse Coordinators located in-hospital help support teams to provide pain/symptom management, palliative education, patient/family teaching and support
- Palliative Nurse Coordinators help to arrange transition from hospital to home for end-of-life care
- LTC patients can access virtual and in-person palliative care physician consults
- Collaboration with hospital- and community-based GAIN teams to support goals of care discussion/planning, pain/symptom management with a focus on helping GAIN patients to remain at home, avoiding ED visits and inpatient stays
- A bridge program that supports patients being discharged home for end-of-life care while they transition to a community-based team
How do you access them? Referral process?
- For the Palliative Ambulatory Clinics, Nurse Practitioner/ Physician referral required. Completed referral form can be faxed to 647-598-4003.
- Fill out the online referral form for the Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic.
Scarborough Health Network – General Hospital
Program Name: Palliative Care program at Scarborough Health Network (SHN)
- Scarborough Health Network – General Hospital
3050 Lawrence Ave E, Scarborough, ON M1P 2V5
Tower Wing, 6th Floor
416-431-8200 ext. 3615
Services provided
- Inpatient Palliative Care Clinic located at the General Hospital
- The unit supports people with any life-limiting condition who need hospital admission for acute, palliative care supportive interventions
Typical inpatient stay is for a short period of time (<1 month) - Staffed by seasoned, expert palliative care nurses, nurses newer to the specialty, and a multi-professional team that focuses on comfort, quality of life and goal-focused care
Assessment, consultation, support, and end of life care - Unit includes warmly decorated private and semi-private patient rooms; patients, families and caregivers have access to a bright kitchenette, a quiet room reserved for prayer, meditation or counselling that patients and families can use for comfort
- Pain/symptom management education, palliative education, patient/family teaching and support
- The unit supports people with any life-limiting condition who need hospital admission for acute, palliative care supportive interventions
- Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
- Help patients with a palliative diagnosis to manage their symptoms while living at home or in the community
- Trained professionals with expertise in pain and symptom management, including assessment, consultation and treatment, and ongoing follow-up care as needed for fatigue,
- depression, nausea, shortness of breath, etc.
- Advanced care planning to help in discussing decisions around future health and personal care
- Supportive care, counselling and multi-faith services to aid families coping with grief, anxiety and stress
- Referrals and links to community supports
- Assistance in facilitating admission into a palliative care unit when appropriate
- Palliative Consultation Service
- For people who are inpatients at SHN
- Those with a life-limiting condition/illness can be supported by our specialist palliative physicians and nurse coordinators working collaboratively with inpatient team
- The team provides assessment, consultation, support with pain or other distressing symptoms, and end-of-life care
- Palliative Nurse Coordinators located in-hospital help support teams to provide pain/symptom management, palliative education, patient/family teaching and support
- Palliative Nurse Coordinators help to arrange transition from hospital to home for end-of-life care
- LTC patients can access virtual and in-person palliative care physician consults
- Collaboration with hospital- and community-based GAIN teams to support goals of care discussion/planning, pain/symptom management with a focus on helping GAIN patients to remain at home, avoiding ED visits and inpatient stays
- A bridge program that supports patients being discharged home for end-of-life care while they transition to a community-based team
How do you access them? Referral process?
- For the Palliative Ambulatory Clinics, Nurse Practitioner/ Physician referral required. Completed referral form can be faxed to 647-598-4003.
- Fill out the online referral form for the Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic.