“One collective Catholic voice for Palliative Care”
Who We Are
With a unified voice, we advance palliative care excellence in Catholic health care settings through education, advocacy, mission and ethical integration as well as the promotion of spiritual care in palliative care.
Since 1994, we have established, built, and sustained interdisciplinary palliative care programs across the United States as an expression of God’s healing love for all, especially the poor, marginalized, and forgotten.
“Palliative care is an expression of the properly human attitude of taking care of one another, especially of those who suffer.
It bears witness that the human person is always precious, even if marked by age and sickness.”
What is Palliative Care?
According to the World Health Organization:
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through the early identification, correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual.
According to the Center to Advance Palliative Care:
Palliative care, and the medical sub-specialty of palliative medicine, is specialized medical care for people living with serious illness. It focuses on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Palliative care is provided by a team of palliative care doctors, nurses, social workers and others who work together with a patient’s other doctors to provide an extra layer of support. It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and can be provided along with curative treatment.
“To cure sometimes,
to relieve often,
and to comfort always…”
Our Priorities
Cultivating Professional Resilience
Promoting individual and organizational flourishing
