330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Region: Boston

Description of resource: BIDMC Palliative Care Consult service provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary care for patients with life threatening illness and their families. The service addresses issues of pain and symptom management, end-of-life care issues such as health care proxy, advance care directives, and discussions to determine plan of care. The consult service works in collaboration with case management and social service to achieve seamless transitions from the hospital to the home, skilled nursing facility, rehab or hospice. Bereavement support is also available.

Language: ASL, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Laotioan, Cambodian, Cape Verdean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Haitian/Creole, Vietnamese
Support Groups: Cancer: General, Ovarian, Breast; AIDS/HIV; Family Caregive; General Adult Bereavement

Contact: Lachlan Forrow, MD/Director Ethics & Palliative Care
Phone: 617-667-1320
FAX: 617-667-2854 (Attention: Nancy)

email: lforrow@BIDMC.harvard.edu
website: www.bidmc.harvard.edu

	Bereavement
	Complementary Health (accupunture, stress reduction)
	Education (including Lending Library)
	Financial
	Language (See above)
	Palliative Care
	Specialized Medical (Pain Clinic, Pain Service)
	Spirituality
	Support Group (See above) /Counseling (Illness and Bereavement)
	Transportation/Lodging