Team of Experts
Your team of experts will work together to provide compassionate, personalized care that will help meet your unique and evolving health care needs.
Meet Your Care Team
Caring for you the MJHS way is about meeting your unique needs and preferences with a personalized team of experts dedicated to supporting you and helping you achieve your goals. Hospice and palliative care both use an interdisciplinary team approach that consists of specialized medical care focused on symptom relief and reducing the stress of a serious or life-limiting illness.
Your personalized team of experts includes physicians, registered nurses, social workers, spiritual care advisors, creative arts therapists, home health aides, and volunteers, all dedicated to delivering comprehensive, compassionate care tailored to your needs.
Our team will coordinate your medical care, working closely with you, your family, and consult with your treating physician.
Culturally Sensitive Care Tailored to You
As part of our commitment to treating every patient with compassion, dignity and respect, our team of experts receive annual cultural-sensitivity training and education. This ensures they have the appropriate knowledge base to provide culturally- sensitive care for our diverse patient populations across New York City and Nassau County.
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care is Here For You
Whether you’re seeking symptom management for a serious illness or support at the end of life, we’re ready to provide the specialized care and guidance you need.
Get in Touch with MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care
Whether you or your loved one needs hospice or palliative care, MJHS provides compassionate support focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life. Our expert team will work closely with you and your family to honor your wishes and provide care that meets your unique needs.
MJHS Hospice Care
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1-212-420-3370
MJHS Palliative Care
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1-212-649-5250
Supportive Resources
When care focuses on comfort and quality of life near the end of life, it becomes a time centered on peace, dignity, and connection. Whether you are supporting a loved one through their final months, weeks, or days, hospice care helps manage pain, ease symptoms, and honor emotional and spiritual needs. This section offers helpful information about hospice care to guide and support you through this meaningful time.
Cómo pueden los voluntarios ayudar a los cuidadores
Brindar atención de hospicio es un trabajo en equipo. Y los voluntarios, junto con sus coordinadores, son una parte integral de este trabajo.
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Trabajadores sociales: rompiendo barreras desde 1898
El trabajo social ha sido una disciplina central del Sistema de salud de MJHS desde su comienzo en 1907. Los trabajadores sociales son una parte integral de nuestro equipo interdisciplinario y ayudan a los cuidadores a romper las barreras brindándoles apoyo y conectándolos con recursos de la comunidad.
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A Guide to Hospice Care
Hospice care, also referred to as comfort care, is a specialized level of support designed for you or your loved one if you have an advanced illness, a prognosis of six months or less and have chosen to stop curative treatments.
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