In March 2006, the UAB Palliative and Comfort Care Unit was opened. This 12-bed inpatient unit was the result of significant gifts from our community and support from the UAB Health System. The unit ...

If you are a Fred Hutch patient, the team from our Supportive and Palliative Care Service can help ... As we discuss your wishes for future health care treatment, we can also help you complete forms ...

Our interdisciplinary team is committed to supporting patients and their families through the stress of serious illness. Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care. At the ...

Researchers evaluated billing for early palliative care among Medicare beneficiaries who were newly diagnosed with 1 of 6 common distant-stage cancers.

Physicians engaged in palliative and end-of-life care can appreciate the tremendous value social workers add to an ...

Choices Program, which supports patients in Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie counties, was created to bring in-home palliative care services to older adults who are facing a serious illness. Palliative ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped to help skilled nursing facilities deliver palliative care to ...

Dyspnea is one of the most common symptoms reported by patients receiving palliative care. It is not only a symptom of severe or chronic pulmonary disease, but is also associated with a wide ...

The power of music is comforting patients undergoing palliative care, helping them and their ... "It's my most active form of ...

While palliative care remains an uncommon offering among home-based health care providers, forward-thinking providers have ...

A default palliative care referral intervention increased palliative care consultations by more than fivefold and decreased end-of-life systemic therapy by more than half among patients with ...