Saarpfalz Hospice and Palliative Care Network
The network
The Saarpfalz Hospice and Palliative Care Network is an association of health and social care facilities and pastoral care organisations in the Saarpfalz district that are committed to providing hospice and palliative care for seriously ill and dying people and their relatives.
It is a network in which various professional groups and specialisms as well as full-time and voluntary staff are represented. The multi-professional co-operation extends to patients who are cared for at home, in clinics, in facilities for the elderly or disabled and in hospices. The catchment area covers the Saarpfalz district.
Goals
The fundamental aims of the Saarpfalz Hospice and Palliative Care Network are to improve and maintain the quality of life of patients with an advanced incurable illness and their families.
Hospice and palliative care should enable a self-determined, if possible pain-free and conscious life even if the underlying disease can no longer be treated curatively. It affirms life and sees dying as a normal process; death is neither accelerated nor artificially delayed.
The aim is to accompany the seriously ill, dying person and to enable them to stay in familiar surroundings with less fear and pain.
The Saarpfalz Hospice and Palliative Care Network pursues these goals in particular by promoting multi-professional cooperation and coordination, through continuous discussion and further training.
The hospice and palliative network itself does not take on any patient-related activities, and concluding contracts with cost bearers is not part of its remit. The responsibility of the network partners for their activities is not affected.
Network partners
The Saarpfalz Hospice and Palliative Care Network is open to people and organisations who are committed to the physical, mental, psychosocial and spiritual well-being of people requiring hospice and/or palliative care.
Hospice guide
Hospice work and palliative care for the dying and seriously ill are committed to providing quality of life until the end of life. This hospice and palliative care guide is intended to serve as a source of information with relevant contact addresses for people and their relatives at a difficult time.
Outpatient medical ethics counselling
The task of the outpatient ethics committee is to consider, on the basis of general ethical criteria and standards, which recommendations can be made for a good medical and nursing approach in specific individual cases and thus to support the relatives and the attending physician in their decisions.