Debunking Myths and Misconceptions About Hospice and Palliative Care: What You Need to Know
Many individuals and families struggle to understand the difference between hospice and palliative care when faced with serious illness. Despite the growing awareness of these...
Understanding the Difference Between Hospice and Palliative Care
When facing a serious illness, understanding your care options is crucial. For over 30 years, Gilchrist has provided a range of specialized care services, including...
This Thanksgiving Consider Having the Talk of a Lifetime
This Thanksgiving Consider Having the Talk of a Lifetime As we all know, November is the month of Thanksgiving, of gathering with loved ones and...
Palliative Care: Applying “The Platinum Rule” for My Patients
Palliative Care: Applying “The Platinum Rule” for My Patients As a palliative medicine consultant, I see patients and families during some of the most arduous...
Gilchrist Integrative and Palliative Medicine: Using Our Toolbox to Enhance Well-being
Gilchrist’s Integrative and Palliative Medicine team focuses on the mind-body care of patients with serious illness and their families, using all the “tools” that work....
The Benefits of Early Palliative Care
Understanding the benefits of early palliative care requires understanding palliative care in general. Palliative care is not a single service but rather a philosophy of...
Integrative Medicine Helps Patients With Cancer Live Their Best Life
By Rhonda Gold, Ovarian Cancer Survivor Gilchrist’s Integrative and Palliative Medicine services are available to patients receiving cancer treatment at GBMC. Encouragement, mindfulness, hope and...
Community Supports Gilchrist’s Care Teams During the Pandemic
With your support, together our story goes on. 1,008. That is the number of patients that Gilchrist is caring for throughout our community at this...
How Can Integrative and Palliative Medicine Help People with Serious Illness?
Each day, the physicians and nurse practitioners on our Integrative and Palliative Medicine team live and breathe Gilchrist’s philosophy of supporting patients and families through...
What Hospice Care Means to Patients and Their Families
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month — a time to celebrate the care that helps patients and family caregivers find comfort, respect and...