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What Is TRU Palliative Care?
TRU Palliative Care provides specialized support for people living with a serious illness who are experiencing unmanaged symptoms, functional decline, or both. Palliative care is not about stopping treatment—it’s about adding an extra layer of support alongside the care you’re already receiving.
Our palliative care nurse practitioners work in collaboration with your primary care provider and specialists to help manage symptoms, navigate complex medical decisions, plan for the future, and focus on what quality of life means to you. Together, we partner with you and your loved ones to ensure your care aligns with your goals, values, and preferences.
Our palliative care program offers:
- Specialized support for people living with advanced serious illnesses.
- Expert symptom management to help improve comfort and quality of life.
- Guidance with advance care planning and complex medical decision-making.
- Care that is coordinated with your primary care provider and specialists.
- In-person and/or telehealth visits based on your individual needs and preferences.
- Support that works alongside treatments intended to cure, control, or slow your illness.
Palliative Care May Be Right For You If
- You have an advanced serious illness that affects your daily life, independence, or quality of life.
- You're experiencing symptoms that are becoming more difficult to manage.
- You have important medical decisions to make and would like help understanding your options and planning for the future.
- You would like help setting goals of care and sharing these with your doctors and/or loved ones.
What Palliative Care Can Help With
Living with a serious illness can affect every part of your life. Our goal is to help you feel more supported, more informed, and more in control by working alongside your existing healthcare team.
Palliative care can help with:
- Symptom management: Helping manage symptoms such as pain, shortness of breath, nausea, fatigue, anxiety, and other symptoms that affect your comfort and quality of life.
- Medical decision-making: Helping you understand your illness and treatment options so you can make informed decisions that align with your goals and values.
- Advance care planning: Supporting conversations about your wishes, completing advance directives, and planning for future healthcare decisions.
- Care coordination: Working closely with your primary care provider and specialists to ensure everyone is working toward the same goals.
- Support and resources: Connecting you and your loved ones with education, community resources, and additional support to help navigate life with a serious illness.
Why Choose TRU Palliative Care
At TRU Community Care, we believe living with a serious illness shouldn’t mean facing it alone. Our experienced palliative care team partners with you, your loved ones, and your healthcare providers to deliver compassionate, personalized care focused on what matters most to you.
Why patients choose TRU:
- Specialized expertise: Our palliative care nurse practitioners have advanced training in caring for people living with serious illness.
- Care centered around you: We take the time to understand your goals, values, and preferences so your care reflects what's most important to you.
- A collaborative approach: We work closely with your primary care provider and specialists to ensure your care is coordinated and your healthcare team is working together.
- Care that meets you where you are: Visits are available in person or by telehealth based on your needs and preferences.
- Support throughout your journey: As part of TRU Community Care, we can seamlessly connect you with additional services and resources as your needs change over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Both palliative care and hospice focus on improving quality of life, managing symptoms, and supporting patients and families through serious illness.
Palliative care is designed for people living with a serious illness who are experiencing unmanaged symptoms, functional decline, or increasing medical complexity. It is provided alongside the care you receive from your primary care provider and specialists and can be received while continuing treatments intended to cure, control, or slow your illness.
Hospice is for people living with an advanced illness when the focus has shifted to comfort and quality of life rather than treatments intended to cure the illness. Hospice also provides additional support for caregivers, as well as medications, medical equipment, and supplies related to the hospice diagnosis.
Our palliative care team is led by experienced nurse practitioners and physician assistants who specialize in caring for people living with serious illness. They work in collaboration with your primary care provider and specialists to provide an extra layer of support throughout your care.
Palliative care visits are covered by Medicare and many private insurance plans. Depending on your insurance, you may have a copay, coinsurance, or deductible, similar to other specialist visits. Before your first appointment, we’ll review your benefits with you and answer any questions about your coverage.
Yes. We meet you where you are. Visits can take place in your home or through telehealth, depending on your needs and preferences. Your palliative care provider will work with you to determine the approach that best meets your needs while coordinating closely with your primary care provider and specialists.