Our Story
Our Mission
' To support patients to live well everyday by committing to honouring their lives and providing comfort to their families'
Our Vision
'Offering an exclusive free in-home palliative care service to terminal patients enabling them to live well and die with dignity'
Our Values
'A person and family-centred approach with an emphasis on providing effective communication, shared decision-making and personal autonomy'
Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors have over 60 years experience as specialised palliative care clinicians and will provide direct nursing services and clinical experience to our patients.
"I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully". Australian Nurses Oath
Meet the Team
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.” Florence Nightingale
We are working very hard in putting together a
GREAT specialised palliative team to service:
Blacktown
Parramatta
Penrith
The Hills District
Hawkesbury
Message from the Nurse Manager
We are here to service our community
Message from the Educator
Palliative Care Mentor
Dame Cicely Saunders
Founder of the modern palliative movement was responsible for establishing the discipline and the culture of palliative care.
She introduced effective pain management and insisted that dying people needed dignity, compassion, and respect, as well as rigorous scientific methodology in the testing of treatments.
She abolished the prevailing ethic that patients should be cured, that those who could not be cured were a sign of failure, and that it was acceptable and even desirable to lie to them about their prognosis.
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She put paid to the notion that dying people should wait until their painkillers had worn off before they received another dose and scotched the notion that the risk of opiate addiction was an issue in their pain management.
