SilverStone provides specialized medical care focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness and improving quality of life for both the patient and the family. SilverStone palliative care is provided by a specially trained team of doctors, nurses practitioners, social workers, and other specialists who work together with a patient’s other doctors to provide anextra layer of support. SilverStone palliative care is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, and it can be provided along with curative treatment. SilverStone serves patients in acute and post-acute facilities, ambulatory care, nursing facilities, assisted living, and home settings. Covering the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, at SilverStone Palliative we follow up with an initial consultation and plan within 72 hours of doctor referral or emergency department visit.
To support patients with advanced and terminal illness and their loved ones at home by providing a team that addresses physical, social, emotional and spiritual well-being with attention to navigation of “the wilderness of decline.”
The main goal of palliative care in your home is improved quality of life. Being at home is more comfortable, convenient, and less stressful, particularly when you are not feeling your best. The SilverStone Palliative Care program is a community-based program, providing specialty level palliative care services to patients living at home. The goal is to beinclusive enough of team members and allow flexibility of follow-up that meetsthe patients’ needs, provides continuity, efficiency, and does not require the MD as the sole point of contact, although physician oversight will remainfor every patient. The role of the social worker, chaplain, RN will likely include key relationship building to identify community resources to assist seriously ill patients and their families.
See Eligibility Criteria- Alfonso Montiel, CEO at SilverStone Palliative
Maximum convenience based on your schedule
Being as comfortable as possible in familiar settings
Receive assistance with medical, emotional, and spiritual support needs
Care wherever you call your home; nursing home, assisted living or even group home
We Help You Think About What Matters Most To You And Talk About It With Your Family
Consider your hopes, goals, priorities and what brings you meaning and joy in your life. What fears or worries do you have about the future? Sharing these with your healthcare team is important. If you are uncertain that is ok, too.
We Support You In Choosing A Surrogate Decision Maker
(someone who could make decisions for you if you were unable to do so) This person is very important. It is impossible to think through every possible outcome, especially if these are things in thefuture. That is why it is so important to have identified someone who knows what is important to you and having them available to speak on your behalf.
We Assist You In Completing A Solid Advance Health Care Directive
There are documents that our social worker can help you to complete. One is a medical power of attorney which names the person or persons who may make decisions for you if you are unable. The other advanced directives address what you would or would not want done if your condition became terminal and irreversible and discusses continuing life support vs focusing on your comfort in your last days. Know that with either of these documents, you may change them as circumstances with your health change. Consider completing a MOST (Medical order for scope of treatment or OOH-DNR).