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Pediatric Supportive and Palliative Care

When children are faced with a serious disease, we focus on maximizing their quality of life, providing relief from pain, symptoms, and stress, and coordinating and improving their families' experience of care.

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Call Pediatric Supportive & Palliative Care at 617-643-9079.

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About the program

Pediatric Supportive and Palliative Care at Mass General Brigham for Children supports children with chronic, life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses and their families by enhancing their quality of life. Our team offers support to children with serious conditions and their families anywhere along their illness course, including families facing pregnancies complicated by genetic disorders or congenital malformations. We work with your child’s primary and specialist teams to provide the best possible care. Our team aims to identify your family’s goals and values, ease distressing symptoms, optimize quality of life, and improve communication between care teams and families. We also help families navigate the best treatment choices for them and their child.

Our team is primarily an inpatient consultative service made up of pediatric palliative care doctors and a pediatric nurse practitioner. The Pediatric Supportive and Palliative Care team collaborates closely with your child’s care providers within Mass General Brigham for Children as well as those in the community. Key providers we work closely with may include your child’s primary care physician, subspecialists, nurses, child life specialists, spiritual care providers, physical, occupational and speech therapists and many others.

While your child is in the hospital, their medical providers may invite our service to join your child’s care team. When your child is being seen in an outpatient setting, providers may also consult or refer children to our service. If you are interested in seeing if palliative care may benefit your child’s treatment, please call our office at 617-643-9079 and leave a message. We will return your call to determine if, and how, our team may be helpful.

Part of Mass General Brigham for Children

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