Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center’s Palliative Care Program just became the third medical center in the Joint Commission.

es Pomona Valley Hospital for providing patients with safe, high-quality care, treatment and services associated with an advanced terminal illness.

“We are so pleased to be recognized as only the third hospital in all of California to receive this

said PVHMC’s Palliative Care Leader Sandra Fuentes. “This award reinforces the Palliative Care team’s dedication to improving the quality of life of our terminally ill patients and their families.” Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center’s board- tive care physicians, nurses, social workers and chaplains work as a team to address patients’ physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs during end-of-life care.

By implementing this multidisciplinary approach, the hospital is able to provide comfort in all areas of a terminally ill patient’s life.

The objective of the Palliative Care Program is to educate patients and their families about their disease and the future outcome, establish an environment that supports the patient’s cultural, spiritual and religious needs, engage the patient and his family to participate in important medical decisions, and develop a plan which promotes the patient’s quality of life.