General Information
Announcing the launch of Scarborough Palliative Care
Care when you need it most: Scarborough Palliative Care (SPC) brings together the palliative care services of several healthcare providers to offer better connected and coordinated care for our community. Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with a serious, life-limiting illness and is experiencing uncomfortable symptoms? We can help.
Palliative care is an approach to care that focuses on improving quality of life, managing pain/distressing symptoms and providing a support system to help people living with life-limiting illnesses to continue their days with quality and dignity.
While it’s often thought that palliative care is for when you are close to end of life, it is fitting to connect with a palliative care team at any time you are ready to accept this kind of care and support. You can still be receiving active treatment for an illness, and your palliative care team will partner with you to manage pain and symptoms, help you to plan for the future, and share your wishes with the important people in your life
SHN Rowntree Palliative Care Centre
Scarborough Health Network is proud to be home to the Rowntree Palliative Care Centre, providing palliative care services through outpatient visits, support, and resources, as well as to patients staying in our hospital. Our care is person and family-centered and provides by a team that respects your social, spiritual and cultural practices. We work closely with our community partners through Scarborough Palliative Care to provide you with seamless access to pain and symptom management, advance care planning, and end of life care everywhere in Scarborough.
It is thanks to the tremendously generous donation of $5 million from Mr. Rowntree that SHN is able to offer the Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre Program.
Our Services
SHN Rowntree Palliative Care Centre
Our Rowntree Palliative Care Centre provides specialist palliative care consultation by physicians and nurses across all programs in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Our experts work with patients, families, and teams to support symptom management, goals of care discussions, future planning and care between home, hospital and community.
At SHN’s Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre, located our Centenary Hospital, we provide in-person and virtual appointments to help people who are living at home to manage their symptoms and clarify their future wishes.
We offer compassionate and coordinated care through:
- Expert pain and symptom management, including assessment, consultation and treatment, and ongoing follow-up care as needed for fatigue, depression, nausea, shortness of breath, pain, etc.
- Guidance on how to talk about what you would like for your future health and personal care
- Supportive care, counselling and multi-faith services to aid you and your family to cope with grief, anxiety and stress
- Connections to community supports
- Assistance with admission to a palliative care unit or hospice when appropriate
Contact us
SHN Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre
Centenary Hospital
Margaret Birch Wing, 1st Floor
Phone: 416-284-8131 ext. 5035
Fax: 647-598-4003
Email: palliative@shn.ca
If you would like to access our services, including scheduling an appointment at our Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic or being seen at home, please have your primary care provider send us a referral.
SHN has a highly specialized inpatient palliative care unit located at our General Hospital. This unit is staffed and supported by our specialist interprofessional palliative care team. The inpatient palliative care unit provides services to individuals who:
- Live in Scarborough or have previously received care at SHN;
- Need specialized symptom management or acute supportive care for an underlying illness;
- Agree with the philosophy of a palliative approach to care; and
- Want support in their final days of life – coming from one of our inpatient units or directly admitted from home.
Contact us
Palliative Care Unit
General Hospital
If you have any questions, or want to self-refer, please call the SHN Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre at 416-284-8131 ext. 5035 to speak with one of our Palliative Care Coordinators
Coming Soon
Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre Rapid Response Team
24/7 support when you go home from hospital, until community services are in place.
Scarborough Palliative Care
Scarborough Palliative Care
Announcing the launch of Scarborough Palliative Care — Care when you need it most.
Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with a serious, life-limiting illness and is experiencing uncomfortable symptoms? We can help.
Or do you know someone going through a difficult treatment for a life-limiting illness with too much pain or other symptoms? We can help.
Through Scarborough Palliative Care (SPC) ‘every door is the right door.’ No matter how, where or who requests care, our new program ensures that people from across Scarborough will have equitable access to all the palliative and supportive care services our partners provide right here in the community.
Whether you need support at home, in the hospital, a long-term care facility, or a hospice home, you have come to the right place — right here at (name of organization)— to get what you need from us and all of Scarborough’s palliative care providers.
We are part of your care team and will support your pain and symptom management, as well as your and your family’s emotional and information needs.
Contact us
Let’s start a conversation. Please contact us through one of the options below so we can start to help.
Call for general inquiries or to initiate your referral: 437-290-8063
Have your provider fax a referral: 416-521-3067
Your peace of mind is our goal.
Scarborough Palliative Care Members
Included under SPC is a consultative group of clients, families, and patient advisors who contribute invaluable input based on their personal experiences of palliative care.
Accessing Care and Resources
Accessing our Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
If you would like to access our services, including scheduling an appointment at our Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic or being seen at home, please have your primary care provider send a referral.
*Palliative Common Referral Form coming soon
Note for Providers: please refer through Epic or complete the Palliative Common Referral Form and fax to 647-598-4003. Ocean electronic referrals coming soon.
Accessing our Inpatient Palliative Care unit
For admission to our Inpatient Palliative Care unit, please refer through Epic, fax the Palliative Common Referral Form to 647-598-4003, or call the SHN Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre Hub at 416-284-8131 ext. 5035 to speak with a Palliative Care Coordinator.
*Palliative Common Referral Form coming soon
If you have any questions, or want to self-refer, please call the SHN Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre Hub at 416-284-8131 ext. 5035 to speak with one of our Palliative Care Coordinators.
Accessing Palliative Care across Scarborough
Scarborough Palliative Care (SPC) is a collaboration between SHN Bryan and Bette Rowntree Palliative Care Clinical Centre Program, patient family advisors (community members), and our partner organizations in Scarborough. This makes SPC accessible across our community.
Follow the links below to the respective organization that aligns most closely with you or your loved one’s palliative care needs:
- SHN Rowntree Palliative Care Centre
- Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC)
- Yee Hong Peter K. Kwok Hospice
- Scarborough Academic Family Health Team
- Shepherd Village
- Home and Community Care Support Services