Category / Healthcare / Palliative Care

From “Hear Me Now”: Arleta Lefler talks to her colleague, Theresa Gleason, about nursing being more than a job and how a stolen moment with a kitten allowed a man with cancer to…

From “Hear Me Now”: Salve Bautista’s aunt received palliative care through Providence, which awoke a passion in Salve for this field of medicine. The palliative staff at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical…

From “Hear Me Now”: Dr. Ira Byock, founder and chief medical officer of the Providence Institute for Human Caring, and Dr. BJ Miller, a palliative care physician at UCSF Medical Center, share thoughts…

From “Hear Me Now”: Mary Kingston, chief executive of Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers in Torrance and San Pedro in Southern California, shares with Michael Jongsma, chief nursing officer, the anguish…

From “Hear Me Now”: Dr. Glen Komatsu, CMO of Providence TrinityCare Hospice & Regional Palliative Care, reflects on the clinical skill and emotional resilience required to care for dying children. He shares the…

From “Hear Me Now”: Torrie Fields, palliative care advocate, cancer survivor and senior program manager at Blue Shield in California, found her stronger voice as a patient through palliative care. She shares with…

From “Hear Me Now”: Annette Walker, former president of strategy at Providence St. Joseph Health, shares with Erik Wexler, PSJH’s regional chief executive for Southern California, how her father could have benefited from…

From “Hear Me Now”: Holly Rossiter and her family sought the help of a perinatal hospice program to help her deliver her baby, Aubrielle, who was diagnosed in utero with a terminal illness.…