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