Reimbursement pressures, workforce strains and lagging awareness represent pain points preventing greater utilization of palliative care. These factors can weigh even heavier on access and quality of life for seriously ill children and their families in need of these services. The road to pediatric palliative care can be filled with many barriers for patients and […]
RWJ Barnabas Health
The nation’s supply of pediatric palliative care professionals pales in comparison to the demand for these services, according to Dr. Colin O’Reilly, vice president and chief medical officer at Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH). The New-Jersey based hospital is part of the RWJBarnabas Health system and serves roughly 200,000 pediatric palliative care patients across its service […]
New Jersey-based RWJBarnabas Health has expanded its pediatric palliative care program at the health system’s Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH). The move will increase outpatient and inpatient pediatric palliative care services at the hospital, as well as across the health system’s footprint. CSH is launching an outpatient component of the pediatric palliative program this spring at […]


