Palliative Care

Our Services

Outpatient and Home-based Consultations

The University of Rochester's Palliative Care Program offers opportunities for patients and families to receive outpatient palliative care consultations in a variety of clinical sites, as well as the potential to receive home-based consultation and ongoing care for selected palliative care and hospice patients within the Greater Rochester Area.

Requests For Palliative Care

A patient, family member, or any health care professional working with the patient may ask the physician responsible for the patient's care to request a consultation. Patients and those caring for them often welcome the support and strength that a consultation provides.

Some of the reasons for requesting a consultation include a need to better address:

Improving pain and symptom management
Clarifying goals and priorities for treatment
Counseling about treatment options
Enhancing patient and family support
Improving access to and coordination of home services

Outpatient and Home-based Consultants

In addition to the Thursday morning palliative care consultations provided by Tim Quill, MD and Kathy Kennel, NP, we will now be adding a second half day (Monday afternoon) staffed by Drs. David Korones and Jeffrey Allen. Both of these sessions will be held on AC3 in the oncology outpatient area. The service is not limited to oncology patients, as we are prepared to see adults with a wide range of medical and palliative care problems. In addition, outpatient pediatric consults can be arranged with David Korones on a case-by-case basis. We look forward to helping your patients maximize the quality of their lives while they are simultaneously receiving the best possible treatment of their diseases.

Sites of Service

Outpatient Palliative Care consultations are available at:

Ambulatory Care Building at Strong Memorial Hospital

Home-based Palliative Care consultations fall into a variety of categories, including:

Home-based Palliative Care consultations in the patients' own home in Monroe County
Ongoing home-based care for a hospice patient (in Monroe County) in need of a primary physician
Ongoing home-based primary care for a seriously ill home-bound patient in Monroe County

How To Obtain a Consultation

Consultations require a referral from the patient's primary treating physician, who can call the Palliative Care Program at 585-273-1154 to arrange for a consultation or to discuss a referral.