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Palliative Care is for adults and senior adults who are looking to improve their health by relieving the stress of a serious illness or disease. You may be experiencing symptoms such as:

  • Physical pain
  • Upset stomach & nausea
  • Difficulty urinating or constipation
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Emotional/Spiritual wellbeing
  • Shortness of breath
  • Loss of appetite
  • Weakness

  • Cancer
  • Kidney Disease
  • Liver Disease
  • Stroke
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • Dementia/Alzheimer’s
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

  • 24/7 Live Support- Speak to an on-call clinician during an emergency, weekends, or holidays. We do not use a call center or 3rd party answering service.
  • Healthcare Provider home visits
  • Pain & symptom management
  • Medication management
  • Complimentary care to existing treatments or therapies
  • Decreased need for reoccurring clinical, hospital, or emergency room visits
  • Assistance with advance care directives & goals of care
  • Coordinated transitions and levels of care with your doctors and specialists
  • Spiritual and emotional support

1. Match care with your preference and individual needs.
2. Reduce repeat clinical visits, emergency room visits, and hospital admissions.
3. Reduce the impact of symptoms and stress of a serious illness or disease.
4. Continue curative treatments with existing primary and specialty providers.
5. Improve quality of life of both you and your family.

Yes, you can keep your primary care team of doctors and specialists! Our Healthcare Providers will partner with your existing medical providers to complement your existing treatments or therapies.

Healthcare can often be a matrix of different resources, and our Care Coordinators hope to streamline and simplify that for you!

Our board-certified SASC team of Healthcare Providers will coordinate your curative treatments by partnering with your existing primary doctor(s) and specialist(s) to better manage your physical pain and symptoms. Your team will discuss your individual symptoms, provide disease education, treatment options, and answer all of your questions to guide you every step of the way.

Our Social Workers can provide extensive knowledge to help navigate your individual insurance benefits and financial responsibilities that come with an illness or disease. They may connect you to community resources that can be beneficial to you based on your individual needs.

Illnesses can also take an emotional or mental toll on both your happiness and your body. We believe that your emotional and mental health is just as important as traditional medical treatments. SASC can provide a non-denominational Chaplain who is available to you and your family as a supportive resource as needed.

For more information, please read about our SASC Care Team.

Palliative Care is for patients that are experiencing stress and symptoms from a serious illness or disease. This can be started at any time and any stage of an illness or disease. The goal is to pair it with existing curative treatments to improve the quality of a patient’s life. Some medical and supportive resources that SASC provides for Palliative Care may overlap with Hospice and are utilized based on individual patient needs as assessed by our Care Team. However other needs, such as medical equipment, are not necessarily included in the provided resources and may not be covered by insurance.

In contrast, Hospice is focused on short-term comfort care during the terminal, or last, phase of life. Terminal is defined as 6-months or less if an illness takes its natural course and curative treatments are no longer beneficial. As days of life become limited, the comfort care is increased to control physical pain and emotional stress of the patient and family.

Please speak with your doctor or contact us today to speak to a SASC Care Coordinator to discuss your specific needs, insurance benefits, and if Palliative Care is right for you.

If you are experiencing stress and symptoms of a serious illness or disease, Palliative Care may improve your overall quality of life. It is best to talk to your doctor about your individual needs or contact us to speak with our Care Coordinator to learn more about our services and if they are right for you.

Palliative Care can be provided in any setting and SASC will provide care wherever you need us: private home, assisted living, skilled nursing facility, or hospital.

1. Our Care Coordinators will guide you seamlessly on starting with Palliative Care.
2. We strive to create a feedback loop with your your primary physician and specialist(s) to coordinate your curative treatments, so you have more time and energy to focus on what is most important.
3. Care is provided wherever you are currently living or call home.
4. Throughout your journey with palliative care, our Care Team will visit with you to ensure you and your family have the right resources and support.
5. Our goal is to improve quality of life for both you and your family and alleviate the physical and emotional stress of a serious illness.

SASC wants you to experience how compassion meets service. We are not a “Chain” or “Corporate” owned company. We are locally owned and operated out of San Antonio, TX. We do not approach our Palliative Care services as “one size fits all.” Our team will provide as much support as you need and specialize the level of clinical care that is appropriate for you.

Whatever stress may be experiencing physically or emotionally, the SASC team is here to address it and improve the quality of life for both you and your family.

SASC is not religiously affiliated; however, our team is culturally diverse and share a number different values with our patients and families. We highly respect all races, ethnicities, cultures, nationalities, genders, orientations, religions, and spiritual beliefs.

Studies show that positive clinical outcomes or greater quality of life can be directly correlated with strong social and emotional support 1. Often finding that patient support is rooted to cultural background or religious affiliations, we strive to include each patients’ individual values to meet their needs for emotional or spiritual comfort.

You should feel confident and comfort in your emotional support- we are happy to coordinate resources to align with your specific religious affiliations or requested Pastor, Priest, Pandit, Imam, etc.

1 Reblin, Maija; Uchino, Bert N Social and emotional support and its implication for health, Current Opinion in Psychiatry: March 2008 - Volume 21 - Issue 2 - p 201-205 doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3282f3ad89

San Antonio Supportive Care accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance plans. While these plans do cover palliative care treatments, talk to our Care Coordinators to learn more about your specific benefits and coverage and if Palliative Care is right for you.

There are many ways to learn more about Palliative Care and get more information about San Antonio Supportive Care Services:

1. Give us a call to speak to a Care Coordinator: (210) 714-3011
2. Send us an email with your First/Last Name, Contact Info, and your question/request: info@saspcare.com
3. Submit an online form and a Care Coordinator will reach out to you.
4. Talk to your doctor(s) about starting Palliative Care with San Antonio Supportive Care Services (SASC).