Palliative Care Services at Children's

Led by our Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT)

Through pediatric palliative care, physicians, nurse practitioners and social workers partner in the care for children who have a serious illness.

Palliative care providers help:

  • Manage a child's physical symptoms
  • Children and families understand how to fit illness into their lives
  • Families make tough decisions about care
  • Identify resources to make a child's life better

Our PACT

Children's calls our palliative care providers our "Pediatric Advanced Care Team" (PACT). Each PACT member is focused on the child, their family and the teams that care for them. Because every child and family is different, we treat each child as an individual, tailoring our services to meet the specific needs of each child and their family. 

PACT physicians 
PACT nurse practitioners
  • Meghan Tracewski, C.P.N.P.
  • Erin Mullaney, P.N.P.-B.C.
PACT social worker 
  • Maura Savage, L.C.S.W.
     
 
SupportPalliativeCare

    Children’s is able to help provide the most up-to-date care for our patients and develop new programs like PACT due to the generous support of our donors. To support PACT, contact Steven Wagner at 404-785-7321.

  
     
SpecialBondAtTheEndOfLife

  • James and state trooper blog post
    When providers saw signs that James, a patient at Children's, was nearing the end of his life, a state trooper stepped in. He quickly transported the patient's father to our hospital, and stayed by the father's side in his son's final day. 

    Read the story from the point of view of our Medical Director of Palliative Care.