Comfort Focused Palliative Care

Dr. Roger Lemmen Palliative Care Director

 

Family Hospice of Northeast Indiana is proud to announce the addition of our new service, Comfort-Focused Palliative Care. To accommodate this new service and the growth of our hospice organization, Dr. Roger Lemmen, having over 20 years of pain and symptom management, has united with Family Hospice as the Palliative Care Director. Dr. Lemmen joins Dr. Bernie Wiebe, Hospice Medical Director and Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and in Family Medicine.

Palliative Care Director, Dr. Roger Lemmen

• Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Care
• Board Certified in Neurology
• Board Certified in Pain Management 

Patients, Family and Clinicians can contact Family Hospice of Northeast Indiana at (800) 355-2817 for more information regarding Comfort Focused Palliative Care.

What does Palliative Care Include?

• Enhancing quality of life for patients suffering with pain or other symptoms related to their serious or life threatening illness.
• Patients at any age and at any stage of advanced illness are eligible.
• A physician certification of life expectancy is not required. Curative treatments may simultaneously be provided with palliative medicine.

Palliative Care Benefits for Clinicians

• Management of highly symptomatic and complex cases with support to the primary care physician.
• Palliative specialist can assist in repeated, intensive family-patient communications.

Palliative Care Benefits for Patients

• Guidance and support with difficult medical choices.
• Focus on problematic symptom distress, including anxiety, pain, nausea, breathlessness, depression, fatigue and weakness.