ChristianaCare Supportive & Palliative Care at Elkton
Medical Professional Building
111 West High Street
Suite 203
Elkton, MD 21921-8617
Brenda McKenzie, MSN, CRNP, NP-C
Allyson Piazza, MSN, CRNP
Tel: 410-398-6154
Fax: 410-392-3820
What is Palliative Care?
To palliate means to provide comfort.
ChristianaCare’s interdisciplinary palliative-care team provides comfort to patients with advanced chronic and serious illness, and to their families. We seek to address your fears and anxieties, lessen your pain and symptoms, and improve your quality of life. We emphasize communication, continuity and coordination of care. We can even help you make decisions about your medical care, including recommendations for medication and referrals as needed.
Palliative care should begin at the time of diagnosis. Palliative Care takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to treating an individual’s symptoms. It provides patients with specialized medical care to relieve the pain and stress of a serious illness and provides the best possible quality of life for both the patient and the family. Palliative care may be complimentary to curative or life-prolonging therapies that are being used to meet patient-defined goals of care.
Services are provided by ChristianaCare Supportive & Palliative Care at Elkton. The care team includes a nurse practitioner, a social worker and a Chaplain.
Managing Your Symptoms
We work with your hospital care team to ease pain, nausea, fatigue, anxiety, shortness of breath and any other symptoms that concern you. Throughout your treatment, we provide emotional and spiritual support to you and your family, and coordination with your primary-care doctor and specialists.
Your hospital physician or primary-care doctor can request a palliative-care consultation while you are in the hospital.