Palliative Care at ZSFG

Mission

The ZSFG Palliative Care Service provides whole person care that relieves suffering and promotes wellbeing for people living with serious illness.

Vision

To develop a service that fits the needs of our patients and their families, honoring cultural, spiritual/emotional, and social perspectives through a highly functioning interprofessional team.

To teach and prepare healthcare providers to integrate palliative care approaches in the daily care of people living with serious illness, regardless of medical specialty or discipline.

Service and Outpatient Clinic Hours

Inpatient consult service:
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Please contact providers through Epic messaging or UCSF paging system.

Palliative Care and Symptom Management Outpatient clinic:
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Please contact providers through Epic messaging or for scheduling assistance, call 628-206-8287.

For general questions and to support the service, contact ZSFG Division of Hospital Medicine at zsfghospitalmedicine@ucsf.edu.

Palliative Care Resources

VitalTalk: evidence-based training for communication in palliative care.
Palliative Care Fast Facts: an extensive library of brief, evidence-based review articles on a diverse array of topics in palliative and end of life care.
Center to Advance Palliative Care: "provides tools and training for clinicians caring for people with serious illness."
ePrognosis: a data-driven online tool to assist clinicians with prognostication, discussing prognostic information with patients and families, and related medical decision making.