Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team / PACT
Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team / PACT
Joshua's parents learned their 3-year-old son was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancerous abdominal tumor in children. Joshua benefited from the pain and symptom management provided by the Pediatric Palliative Care and Comfort Care Team.
Family-Centered Care for Children with Complex, Life-threatening or Chronic Conditions
The Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team / PACT at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center offers comprehensive, family-centered care for children with complex, life-threatening or chronic conditions. The PACT comprises physicians, social workers and a nurse practitioner.
- Help coordinate your child's medical care, along with your child's present medical care team.
- Assist in making complex medical decisions.
- Provide expert pain and symptom management.
- Recommend / make referrals for supportive therapies such as holistic health, spiritual care, child life, music therapy, home care and hospice.
Can My Child Benefit from Pediatric Palliative Care?
- Do you feel your child's treatment is becoming increasingly burdensome?
- Has there been a decline in your child's medical condition?
- Are your child's hospital stays becoming more frequent?
- Do you feel confused by the information you receive from your child's care providers?
- Are your child's pain and symptoms becoming difficult to manage?
If you have any one of these concerns, consulting the Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team is an appropriate option for you and your child.
Even a child in a neonatal or pediatric acute care setting can benefit from the pain control and symptom management we offer. For example, we provide pain care for patients cared for by the Division of Hematology/Oncology while they are in the hospital, and for many at home.
Contact the Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team
For more information, please contact the Pediatric Palliative and Palliative Comfort Care Team.
Patient referrals to the Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team can be made by health care professionals and parents. We will contact you on the day the referral is made.
