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Providence Home Health Palliative Care

Providence Home Health Palliative Care serves a wide range of health care conditions.



  • Cancer

    Facing cancer can be scary, and most people have lots of questions. Our cancer topics cover many types of cancer, including breast cancer, colon can...
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  • Heart disease

    Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. It is an umbrella term, made up of a variety of different diseases affecting the hea...
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  • Stroke

    A stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain is blocked or bursts. Without blood and the oxygen it carries, part of the brain starts to die. The...
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  • Parkinson's disease

    Parkinson's disease affects the way you move. It happens when there is a problem with certain nerve cells in the brain. Normally, these nerve ce...
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  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is a disease in which certain nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord slowly die. These nerve cells are called...
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  • Congestive heart failure

    Heart failure is a condition in which the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) are not able to pump blood effectively. When the heart muscle has b...
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  • Multiple sclerosis

    Multiple sclerosis, often called MS, is a disease that affects the central nervous system—the brain and spinal cord. It can cause problems with muscle...
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  • Alzheimer's disease

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive condition that damages areas of the brain involved in memory, intelligence, judgment, language, and behavior. I...
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  • Dementia

    Dementia is a loss of mental skills that affects your daily life. It can cause problems with your memory and how well you can think and plan. Usually ...
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  • Chronic kidney disease

    Chronic kidney disease occurs when damage to the kidneys causes reduced kidney function. Kidney disease has usually been present for many years and ma...
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  • Failure to thrive

    Failure to thrive is a term used to describe a child who seems to be gaining weight or height more slowly than other children of his or her age and se...
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  • Cerebral palsy

    Cerebral palsy is a group of problems that affects body movement and posture. It is related to a brain injury or to problems with brain growth. It i...
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  • Respiratory failure, acute and chronic

    Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a type of severe, acute lung dysfunction affecting all or most of both lungs that occurs as a result of ...
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  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

    COPD is a lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. It is caused by damage to the lungs over many years, usually from smoking....
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  • Diabetes

    Diabetes is a lifelong condition in which sugar (glucose) remains in the blood rather than entering the body’s cells to be used for energy. This resul...
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