Services
We treat patients with an incurable illness, such as advanced cancer, advanced neurological conditions (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, ALS), or internal medical conditions (e.g. heart, kidney, or liver failure)
We improve quality of life by treating a range of symptoms, including
- Pain
- Shortness of breath
- Uncontrollable coughing
- Nausea and/or vomiting
- Nutritional problems
- Mucositis (inflammation, e.g. of the oral mucosa)
- Difficulty swallowing
- Weakness
- Neurological problems
- Anxiety
- Constipation
- Inoperable ileus (bowel obstruction)
- Diarrhea
- Wound care for ulcerating wounds
- Fatigue
- a. what is burdening you
Our services:
- An interdisciplinary care team from the fields of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, psycho-oncology, family therapy, pastoral care, nutritional therapy, speech therapy, art therapy, and music therapy
- Medical interventions and therapies tailored to your wishes
- Psychosocial support for patients and their families
- Help with preparing advance directives and powers of attorney
- Support with treatment decisions, including case-by-case ethical consultations
- Close cooperation with the hospital’s specialist departments (including oncology, gynecology, and naturopathic medicine)
- Organization of care following discharge from hospital
- Accompanying people on their final journey with an individually tailored care concept for the patient and their family
- Ongoing support for bereaved families through grief support services
- DGP certification
- We won’t leave you alone
Palliative Care Ward
Our palliative care ward offers comprehensive palliative support for patients for whom outpatient care is no longer possible. Across twelve comfortable single rooms with barrier-free facilities, a terrace, and round-the-clock visiting hours, the focus is on improving quality of life. Our multi-professional team develops individual treatment plans and works closely with all specialist departments as well as Pallium, the outpatient hospice and palliative care service. Discharge is carefully organized — to the patient’s home, a nursing facility, or a hospice — with SAPV support available on request. We also offer comprehensive support for relatives, including grief support groups and memorial services.
Palliative Care Day Clinic
Our palliative care day clinic supports patients with advanced, incurable illnesses, relieving symptoms on an outpatient basis and helping to avoid hospital stays. Our multi-professional team provides comprehensive diagnostics, infusion and pain therapy, punctures, wound care, physiotherapy, psycho-oncology, art and music therapy, pastoral care, nutritional counseling, and support with advance directives and powers of attorney. The goal is to improve quality of life, autonomy, and self-management skills — in close collaboration with general practitioners, specialists, nursing services, and hospice services.
Palliative Care Consultation Service
The palliative care service at the Evangelical Hospitals Essen-Mitte supports all specialist departments in caring for patients with incurable illnesses — including alongside chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy. A multi-professional team of palliative care physicians, specialized nursing staff, social workers, family therapists, psycho-oncologists, and physiotherapists provides individual treatment plans, pain and symptom control, guidance on advance directives and powers of attorney, and support in difficult decision-making situations. The goal is to improve quality of life, autonomy, and self-management skills.
Specialized Outpatient Palliative Care (SAPV)
Many seriously ill people with an incurable illness wish to spend the final phase of their lives in familiar surroundings rather than in a hospital. They need reliable, comprehensive, and sometimes intensive support, including treatment for pain and other physical and psychological symptoms.
This is where the specialized palliative care nurses and physicians of the SAPV team can help. They have the special expertise and experience needed for this stage of life. In addition, close cooperation with pharmacies and medical supply stores makes it easier to provide medications and necessary aids. If needed, the care structures of the Evangelical Hospitals Essen-Mitte can also be called upon.
For urgent advice or assistance, our SAPV patients have access to a 24-hour on-call service, available 365 days a year, for palliative emergencies — both nursing and medical.
Requirements
SAPV can only begin once a general practitioner, specialist, or hospital physician has determined the need and issued the corresponding prescription (Form Muster 63). The costs of care are covered by the health insurance providers.
We primarily care for people in their own homes, but care in residential facilities for the elderly and disabled, as well as in inpatient hospices, is also possible.
Do you have any questions? Please feel free to call us Monday to Friday between 9:30 AM and 3:00 PM at (0201) 174-24356.
Pallium
PALLIUM is a member of the association Hospizarbeit Essen e.V. and an outpatient hospice service recognized by the health insurance associations, operated under the auspices of the Evangelical Huyssens Foundation. Within it, full-time and volunteer staff dedicate their skills to serving seriously ill and dying people and their families and loved ones.
Hospice care is becoming increasingly established in Germany as well. Nevertheless, the first encounter with the term “hospice” still triggers fear and reservations in many people — unnecessarily so, as we would like to show here. The word “hospice” translates to “shelter” or “refuge,” offering insight into the essence of hospice work. In the true sense of the word, it is about providing a place of shelter to people on one of the most difficult paths of their lives — namely, in serious illness and in dying. A place where they can rest and find respite. A place where they and their loved ones can set down their heavy burdens and be cared for attentively, for their own sake, and with dignity.
Due to the developments in palliative and hospice care in recent years, and the related progress in caring for the seriously ill at home, more and more seriously ill people wish to remain at home for as long as possible, or to die there. For this reason, outpatient hospice services have made it their mission to bring the concept of inpatient hospices into the home environment of those affected.
With the help of many qualified and tirelessly dedicated volunteers, outpatient hospice services help fulfill the wishes of many people — enabling them to live until the end in their personal “shelter”: their own home.
