Hospice News October 25, 2024
Health care providers should take a more expansive view of how they care for patients and families, according to Dr. Tressia Shaw, the new division chief for palliative medicine at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Shaw rose to lead the Phoenix, Arizona-based hospital’s palliative care program in early October. U.S. News and World Report ranks Phoenix Children’s as the best children’s hospital in Arizona. Other publications rank the hospital in the top 50 nationally.
For Shaw, the new position is familiar: She has been instrumental in building the hospital’s childhood palliative care program for the past 20 years. Her first task at Phoenix Children’s was creating a complex care program, which quickly transitioned to creating, nurturing and building the pediatric palliative care...