Hospice and Palliative Care

Our Palliative Care service is an interdisciplinary team, to provide supportive care for patients and their families, while managing advanced illnesses. Our focus is to address pain and other symptom management, addressing goals, directives and advanced care planning. A primary goal of Palliative Care is to prevent and relieve suffering and to support the best possible quality of life for patients and their families, regardless of the stage of the disease or the need for other therapies. Palliative Care expands the traditional disease-model of medical treatments to include one’s goals, directives and also to address the spiritual and social needs of patients and their families.

Within the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Lincoln is among the top providers of Palliative Care services. Lincoln Medical Center takes care of more than 125,000 Emergency Department visits, nearly 500,000 Ambulatory Care visits and almost 20,000 Inpatient Discharges each year. Our Palliative Care consultation service has been active since 2004 and has grown to seeing more than 1000 inpatients per year with an additional 800+ ambulatory care visits each year. Our training provides a wealth of clinical experience in the inpatient and outpatient settings as well as long term and hospice care.

The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at Lincoln Health and Hospitals is fully accredited by the American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and provides comprehensive post-graduate training in all areas of Hospice and Palliative Care. Lincoln Health and Hospitals is located in the South Bronx, an area experiencing remarkable development and gentrification and has a long tradition of providing care to those underserved in the city of New York. Additionally, the Palliative Care program at Lincoln has been awarded certification as an Advanced Palliative Care Program by The Joint Commission.