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Terminal Illness: Additional Resources
SevenPonds suggests the following resources for people living with a life-limiting or terminal illness: Patient Assistance Programs: These programs offer financial assistance with an array of treatment costs, including co-pays […]
SevenPonds suggests the following resources for people living with a life-limiting or terminal illness:
Patient Assistance Programs:
These programs offer financial assistance with an array of treatment costs, including co-pays and medication costs.
National organizations
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Caringinfo ( offered by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
The Second Opinion (free second opinion to cancer patients in California)
National Institute on Aging – Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Housing and transportation
American Cancer Society Hope Lodge Program (short term housing during treatment)
Mercy Medical Angels (help with long-distance transportation for treatment)
American Cancer Society Road to Recovery (help with short-distance transportation to medical appointments.)
Hospice Providers
There are many excellent hospice providers across the United States. However, the following organizations received special recognition from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in 2021 for their commitment to “patient- and family-centered care with measurable results and outcomes.” This is by no means an exhaustive list of quality hospice providers in the U.S. If you don’t live in the communities served by these organizations,
use this interactive map from the NPCHO or the search function on Get Palliative Care.org to find a hospice in your area.
Bluegrass Care Navigators — Serving Kentucky
Nonprofit
1733 Harrodsburg Road
Lexington, KY 40504
855.492.0812
Bridging Life Hospice — Serving the Baltimore, Maryland area and Pennsylvania
Nonprofit
292 Stoner Ave
Westminster, MD 21157
443.952.4884
BSA Hospice of the Southwest — Serving the Amarillo area and the Texas Panhandle Texas For-profit
5211 SW 9th, Ste. 100
Amarillo, TX 79106
806.356.0026
Calvert Hospice — Serving Southern Maryland
Nonprofit
238 Merrimac Court
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
410.535.0892
Caring Circle — Serving Southwest Michigan
Nonprofit
4025 Health Park Ln
Saint Joseph, MI 49085-3421
269.429.7100
Delaware Hospice — Serving parts of Delaware & Pennsylvania
Nonprofit
100 Patriots Way
Milford, DE 19963
302.856.7717
Heartsway Hospice — Serving Northeast Texas
Nonprofit
4351 McCann Rd,
Longview, TX 75605
903.295.1680
HoriSun Hospice — Serving Southeastern Nebraska
For-profit
2200 South 40th St., Ste 101,
Lincoln, NE 68506
402.484.6444
Hospice and Palliative Care, Buffalo, Inc. — Serving Erie County, New York
Nonprofit
225 Como Park Blvd.
Cheektowaga, NY 14227
716.686.1900
Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care — Serving 11 counties in Illinois
Nonprofit
250 Water Stone Circle
Joliet, IL 60431
815.740.4104
St. Croix Hospice — Serving nine states across the Midwest
For-profit
1065 N 115th St Suite 120
Omaha, NE 68154
402.609.4818
Palliative Care Experts
Dr. Joseph Lowy, M.D. — Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine: Director, Palliative Care, NYU Langone Health
Dr. Stephen Pantilat, M.D. — Distinguished Professor in Palliative Care and the Inaugural Chief of the Division of Palliative Medicine at UCSF
Dr. Stephanie Harman, M.D –.Associate Professor of Medicine Clinical Chief, Section of Palliative Care at Stanford Medicine Palliative Care Center of Excellence
Dr. Jessica Nutik-Zitter, M.D. Critical Care and Palliative Care, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA
Dr. R. Sean Morrison, M.D. — Professor of geriatrics and medicine; Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, and Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Medicine , Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Dr. Laura Shoemaker, D.O., M.S. — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Chair Department of Palliative & Supportive Care Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Ira Byock, M.D. — founder & Senior Vice President for Strategic Innovation of the Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joseph Health
Dr. Diane E. Meier, M.D. — Vice Chair for Public Policy and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Professor of Medical Ethics and the founder of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Dr. Dawn Gross, M.D. Palliative Care Physician, UCSF Medical Center, San
Francisco, California
