Cancer Support Services

Cancer patients treated at O’Connor Hospital have access to a myriad of supportive services that are available either onsite or by referral to the American Cancer Society and other local agencies/facilities, ensuring that cancer patients and their families have the local services they need. Services available through O’Connor include:

Clinical nutrition

Physical therapy

Occupational therapy

Enterostomal therapy

Radiation therapy

Pain management

Palliative Care consultation

Educational programs

Pastoral care

Psychosocial counseling

Support groups

Small Cancer resource library

Survivorship programs

Cancer risk assessment

Hospice services are available through a referral by a hospital social worker to one of several local hospice agencies with hospice features that may include:

• Medicare-certification
• Physician-directed,nurse-coordinated
• Pre-hospice
• Pain and symptom management
• Home Alone
• AIDS Program
• Respite care
• Personal care services
• Nursing facility program
• Individual grief counseling
• Bereavement groups
• Comfort/Palliative care