Palliative care is a medical subspecialty devoted to providing the support patients and their families need when dealing with chronic or serious illness. Palliative care focuses on complex symptom management and, unlike hospice, can be provided any time after diagnosis and along with curative treatments.

If you or a loved one is facing a life-limiting illness, VITAS Healthcare can help. We focus on you, not your disease, to ensure comfort and dignity near the end of life. VITAS provides you and your family with a team of hospice professionals—physician, nurse, hospice aide, social worker, chaplain, volunteer—to meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs. We care for... Read More about VITAS Healthcare