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Patient-Centered Serious Illness Care

Patient-centered care starts with a conversation. What are your wishes? What are your worries? What matters to you?

Our Serious Illness Care Program has helped dozens of health systems build a culture where every patient living with a serious illness is known and cared for on their own terms.  We’ve spent more than a decade at the forefront of research on how to ask these questions and really listen to patients’ answers. 

When care is centered on the patient, everyone benefits. Patients feel heard and supported, and clinicians can better provide compassionate, goal-concordant care.  

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