Phoenix Children's Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship provides a robust experience across multiple care settings. Our team completes over 900 consults per year representing a wide range of diagnoses and ages. We value our well-developed partnerships across the hospital in a variety of subspecialties including Intensive Care Units, Oncology, Cardiology, General Pediatrics, Critical Care, Neurology and the Fetal Care Center. Our hospital-based program includes an inpatient consult service with an average daily census of over 40 patients. We have a well-developed outpatient clinic, with over 500 patient encounters per year. Our fellowship received ACGME accreditation in January 2018 and graduated our fifth fellow in July 2024.
Our fellows gain hospice experience through our partnership with Hospice of the Valley (HOV). Rotations include adult and pediatric experiences in home hospice and inpatient hospice unit settings. These occur within an interdisciplinary team with exposure to a variety of ages and diagnoses.
One unique care setting of our program is Ryan House. Ryan House is a pediatric respite, palliative and hospice facility. During hospice months, fellows round on patients receiving acute hospice care or hospice respite care at Ryan House. Currently, there are only a few other facilities like Ryan House operating in the United States.
Phoenix Children's partners with the Mayo Clinic for the fellows’ adult inpatient consultation experience.
Phoenix Children’s has collaborated with the other local Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowships to create the Phoenix Palliative Care Consortium. This consortium has developed a didactic curriculum utilizing the expertise of faculty of all five fellowships in the Phoenix metropolitan area. These didactics run weekly for the first 12 weeks of fellowship and then biweekly thereafter with a pediatric-specific didactic series led by the Phoenix Children’s faculty. This group also holds quarterly journal clubs, board reviews and a protected case review.
Our Phoenix Children's team includes eight board-certified physicians, a nurse practitioner, psychologist, social worker, bereavement counselor, an outpatient mental health therapist, nurse coordinator and research and administrative support. Visit our Leadership page for more information about our team members.
