Palliative Care Team

Our Palliative Care team works with your primary care provider, medical specialists and a wide range of health-care professionals to support you and your family.

Palliative care physicians

Our palliative care physicians focus on preventing and easing suffering and improving quality of life of patients living with serious, life-limiting illness.

Home care physicians

Palliative care physicians from the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care work closely with the palliative care program at Ontario Health atHome. This is the government agency that provides nurses, personal support workers (PSWs) and therapists who visit you at home to deliver basic medical care and supportive care.

Mount Sinai Hospital physicians

Our palliative care physicians and clinical nurse specialist work with your care team throughout your stay in hospital.

Clinic-based Mount Sinai physicians

Our palliative care physicians see you during your appointments at Mount Sinai and work with the members of your care team already involved in your care.

Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital physicians

Our palliative care physicians work closely with the broader Hennick Bridgepoint care team to provide comprehensive care.

Learn more about the physicians, nurses, therapists, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers, spiritual care providers, learners and volunteers who make up the Hennick Bridgepoint care team.

Nurses

Nurses are essential members of the palliative care team. They work with our palliative care physicians to support you and your family in different ways depending on your care setting.

At Mount Sinai, a clinical nurse specialist works with your care team to provide care throughout your hospital stay. At Hennick Bridgepoint, nurses are core members of the care team who manage most of your day-to-day care. In our home-care program, nurses from Ontario Health atHome work with our physicians to provide nursing care in your home.

Pharmacists

In a hospital, pharmacists work with physicians and nurses to make sure each patient receives the right medication. When you are admitted to hospital, a pharmacist will review all your medications to make sure any new prescriptions will not interact with what you already take.

Social workers

Hospital social workers help you and your family arrange for care and services inside and outside the hospital. They can coordinate the care and services you need, provide counselling, and recommend resources and support services near your home.

Spiritual care providers

Spiritual care providers are health-care providers with specialized training in helping people cope with illness and death. They offer religious, spiritual and emotional support based on your own core beliefs and values, organize religious services, and can connect you with religious groups in your community.