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Changing the way we care for people with life-altering illness
Palliative care helps people to live well and live fully. It reduces suffering. It matches treatments to a person’s wishes and values.
Palliative care is concerned about and embraces the whole person. It’s patient-centered.
The palliative care team includes physicians, nurses, social workers, professional chaplains, and others.
With the population of those over age 65 steadily increasing, there is a growing consensus that American needs new cost-effective care models that are more patient-centered and responsive to the needs of spirit, mind and body.
This is why HealthCare Chaplaincy is developing America’s first Palliative Care Campus. It will:
- Change the way care is provided for residents with serious progressive illness through more accessible, more coordinated, more integrated care.
- Provide an optimal quality of life for residents and their significant others during illness.
- Help residents better understand their choices for care and tailor treatment to meet individual needs.
The Palliative Care Campus will house a 120 unit model enhanced assisted living residence for persons with serious progressive illness; our education, research, clinical practice and administrative offices; and a palliative care and geriatric medical home for residents and the Lower East Side community.
The beautifully-designed, environmentally-sustainable, iconic building will add grace and elegance to the New York City skyline.
Development is well underway and construction at the Lower Manhattan site is slated to begin in the Summer of 2011 with a 2013 targeted completion date.
The 120-unit Enhanced Assisted Living Residence will deliver care to the spirit, mind and body of persons with serious, progressive-illnesses.
It will also serve as a “living palliative care classroom.”
Future generations of caregivers from medicine, nursing, social work and chaplaincy will together learn from our residents about how best to design, deliver, and manage care at end of life.
The campus will also house a geriatric and palliative care medical home practice, which will provide multidisciplinary care not only for our residents, but for people who live in the neighboring communities.
To add to the Campus’s environmental sustainability the 125-car parking garage for visitors, staff and neighbors will be fully automated.
The Center for Continuing and Professional Studies will educate the next generations of palliative care clinical leaders and researchers— including professional chaplains—who will attend lectures and seminars, or participate in clinical rotations within the residence.
In partnership with Teachers College at Columbia University, HealthCare Chaplaincy will offer its supervisory education students and other pastoral educators an opportunity to earn the Doctor of Education degree in Adult Learning & Leadership.
The Spears Research Institute will conduct clinical trials of chaplaincy care interventions, outcome studies with family members and hospital staff, inquiries into the fundamental mechanisms linking religion and health, and evaluation studies of all the academic programs.
In sum, the Palliative Care Campus will transform American health care as we currently know it.
To find out more, please contact Carl J. Marucci, Vice President, Advancement at 212-644-1111 x133 or cmarucci@healthcarechaplaincy.org.
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