UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care

UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care

San Francisco, CA
415 509 8645

We are here to reimagine...

how to be of service, within our families and society, to each other, helping those we love to face living with consciousness and comfort, and dying with peace, and how to make good care for people facing serious illness routine.

Our Story

The UCSF MERI CENTER is dedicated to providing an infrastructure for palliative care in the context of routine medical care. Our goal is to recognize and ensure that patients' wishes for their medical care are both known and honored, as we support them and their caregivers in coping with serious illness. Palliative Care seeks to provide support to people with serious illness at any stage of dise...
The UCSF MERI CENTER is dedicated to providing an infrastructure for palliative care in the context of routine medical care. Our goal is to recognize and ensure that patients' wishes for their medical care are both known and honored, as we support them and their caregivers in coping with serious illness. Palliative Care seeks to provide support to people with serious illness at any stage of disease, whether their suffering is physical, emotional or spiritual. This is in concert with whatever medical treatments a person is pursuing. Palliative Care provides pain and symptom management, all the while focusing on the “whole person” and providing a safe space in which to explore the essential questions that face people who are facing mortality: What gives my life meaning? What matters most?

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