Palliative care is compassionate

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with serious illness and significant injury. It's focused on providing relief from symptoms and stress, and its goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and their loved ones.

Palliative care is patient-centered, family-oriented and compassionate. It provides that extra layer of physical and emotional support throughout all stages of a serious illness or injury.

Approximately 90 million Americans are living with a serious illness, and this number is expected to more than double over the next 25 years with the aging of baby boomers.