Palliative Care

The Palliative Care Program at Penn Medicine strives to ease the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social impact of serious illness on individuals and families through an interdisciplinary approach that emphasizes expert clinical care, comprehensive educational programs, and innovative research.

Penn Palliative Care offers you and your family additional support, unique to your needs, throughout the course of a serious, chronic, or life-threatening illness. This comprehensive program includes inpatient, outpatient, and home-based palliative care services (provided through Penn Home Palliative Care). Palliative Care clinicians provide assistance in treating complex symptoms, offer extra emotional and psychosocial support, and the opportunity to discuss and establish your treatment goals. Our multidisciplinary, interprofessional team works collaboratively with your regular care team to help you and your family achieve your treatment goals.

Penn Palliative Care strives to ensure that all people with a serious illness — especially those who experience disparities due to ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, size, or spiritual practice — have the opportunity to engage in conversation about their goals, values, and priorities.