Many of the most supported palliative care programs struggle to provide spiritual care for palliative care patients, an issue that has become more significant as patients have increasingly diverse ...

A need to love and be loved, including seeking reconciliation for broken relationships when needed. During three scheduled encounters, chaplains identified the patients' unmet needs in these three ...

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness. We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease.

A worsening shortage of palliative care physicians is predicted over the next 14 years. One healthcare leader suggests ways to address the crisis. Diane Meier, MD, director of the Center to Advance ...

Established by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Palliative Care Leadership Centers TM (PCLC) have trained almost half of the nation′s hospital palliative ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In a unique partnership, VITAS Innovative Hospice Care® and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have established an inpatient hospice unit that provides quality, ...