The health system's Whole Person Care Collaborative provides the infrastructure to support the needs of cancer patients beyond treatment of their illness.

Palliative care and hospice care have a number of things in common. Both are designed to help people living with a serious illness and to improve their quality of life. But it’s important to ...

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious ...

Palliative care is an approach focused on improving the quality of life of those with serious illnesses. Learn the palliative ...

Lupus is a chronic (long-term) disease that can cause inflammation and pain in any part of your body. It’s an autoimmune disease, which means that your immune system — the body system that usually ...

Hawaii Care Choices has expanded of its Kupu Palliative Care Program into North Hawaii, “increasing access to compassionate, ...

There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients. This is a ...

All gynecologists who care for patients with cervical cancer and all oncologists should have intermediate-level palliative care training (defined by WHO as 60-80 hours) and be capable of integrating ...

“The journey of Hospice East Rand – now known as East Rand Palliative Care – started in a rent-free space in Ampthill Avenue, ...

New York State’s Palliative Care Information Act, which was passed last summer and implemented in February, is meeting resistance from doctors who treat patients at the end of their life. The law was ...

For an estimated 11% of Americans over age 65 who have dementia and the over 11 million unpaid caregivers supporting them, there is no instruction manual for navigating life after diagnosis. A team of ...