Palliative Care

We offer a comprehensive palliative care program for people throughout New Jersey who are dealing with serious illness. Our team of medical specialists collaborates with you, your family, and your health care team to develop a care plan focused on easing the stress, pain and symptoms of your condition — bringing comfort to your body, mind and spirit.

Although they share some characteristics, palliative care and hospice care are not the same things. Hospice care provides end-of-life care for people with a terminal illness. Palliative care is a medical specialty available from the moment of diagnosis with a serious illness and is provided alongside other curative therapies.

We offer palliative care programs tailored to patients’ individual needs, which include at-home care through Hackensack Meridian Health Care Journey™, outpatient care at the Center for Integrated Palliative Medicine and inpatient care for patients currently admitted in any of our acute-care hospitals.