Survivorship and Supportive Care at Stony Brook

Palliative medicine is provided by the Survivorship and Supportive Care Service (SOS). Call for a consult when a patient has
advanced life-limiting illness, such as cancer, COPD, ESRD, CHF, or dementia.
We can help patients with:

• Unacceptable symptom distress

• Initiation and management of PCA, narcotic pump for chronic cancer pain

• Patient and family meetings to achieve goals of care

• Mediating family/patient/team conflict 

• Facilitating interdisciplinary action plans

We can help the team with:

• Helping to avoid “bounce back” admissions

• Transitioning to a skilled nursing facility, comfort care plan, or home hospice care

Please remember:

• We help throughout all stages of any advanced life-limiting illness.

• We can help patients who are receiving life-prolonging treatments, including chemotherapy and/or radiation.

Hospice is a plan for patients in the final phase
of advanced life-limiting illness. Hospice care
is provided in many settings, including nursing
homes, inpatient facilities, “hospice house”
locations, or private homes.

TO CONTACT THE SOS TEAM:

• Page the Hospital operator at 4-1077

• Call the SOS/Palliative Care pager at 262-4093