Providence Kids Care
Providence Kids Care
We understand that any serious or debilitating illness is stressful for the family but even more so when the health of a child is involved. Providence Kids Care provides you and your family with comprehensive pediatric palliative care and hospice services specifically tailored to deal with circumstances involving a child or young adult. Our palliative care offers comfort and support earlier in the course of a child’s illness. Hospice brings you and your family high-quality care when a cure is not possible.
Our palliative care services can help your child cope with temporary pain that is a part of a treatment process, as well as assist children and their families to keep pain from interfering with quality of life as they near the end of their journey. We are committed to serve you and your family with personalized care planning, professional services and caring relationships, offering everything we can to manage pain and symptoms.
Our hospice services provides comforting and empowering support to children and their and families coping with end-of-life care, extending from medical and care support to grief counseling and bereavement services. We are committed to communicating with you every step of the way so that you are central in the decision-making process and provide compassionate care to strengthen relationships, meaning and hope.
All of our care is provided wherever our patients and their families need us – in hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and in the patient's own home.
Providence Kids Care is the only dedicated pediatric hospice program in Los Angeles and Orange counties for infants, children and adolescents with life-limiting illnesses. One of the few children's hospice programs in California, we provide in-home care and support for young patients and their families.
Providence Kids Care services include:
- Pain control, symptom management and end-of-life comfort care
- An on-call nurse, social worker and chaplain, 24 hours, seven days-a-week
- Hospice physician consultation
- Family counseling
- Emotional and spiritual support
- Help in obtaining medicine, supplies and equipment for the child
- Assistance with the child's practical needs such as feeding and bathing
- Supportive services for the child's siblings
- Grief and loss support
Providence Kids Care offers comfort and care to pediatric and adolescent patients and their families. We work closely with parents and family members whenever possible to care for the child in the comforting surroundings of home.
Your Kids Care team will be your partner to help you make the best decisions for your child. We will work hand-in-hand with your child's physician and with other health care providers involved in your child's care to coordinate health services.
Your care team includes these professionals to support you and your child:
- Medical director
- Registered nurse
- Social worker
- Chaplain
- Home health aide
- Specially-trained community volunteer