The palliative care team at Riley Children’s Health provides expert care for symptom management and shared decision- making for children with lifespan-limiting or life-threatening illness. Amplifying our patient’s voice with other medical teams, we support families in medical decision-making, goals of care discussions, advance directives, and complicated pain and symptom management. With a goal to help patients experience the best possible quality of life, our team also oversees end-of-life care for patients in pediatric hospice. PALLIATIVE CARE
The palliative care team at Riley Children’s offers inpatient and outpatient clinical visits, as well as home-based care in partnership with hospice services. Palliative Care Volume: 2023 – 2024
PHYSICIAN HIGHLIGHT
2023
1,694
192
2024
1,970
392
TOP DISTINCTIONS
Patient visits
New consultations
■ International reputation for teaching end-of-life education curricula
■ Serves as the medical leadership group for home-based pediatric hospice services in Indiana
Palliative care services are integrated across specialties at Riley Children’s. Our team receives referrals for new consultations from several clinical departments.
■ Offers training tracks for clinical palliative care fellows
READ about Dr. Stevenson and what his colleagues say about the new leader. > Charles Stevenson, MD, who recently joined Riley Children’s Health as division chief of pediatric neurosurgery, is eager to expand the impact and reach of his team’s expertise in epilepsy, spasticity and movement disorders, fetal neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, craniosynostosis, and other complex neurological conditions. His vision is to move the program, which now includes six pediatric neurosurgeons, to the next level by developing subspecialty services to provide greater access to highly specialized care for patients in Indiana and across the Midwest. TEAM BUILDERS
14% Hematology, oncology and stem cell transplant
14% Cardiology
15% Neonatal intensive care unit
11% Pediatric intensive care unit
Palliative Care Referral Sources 2024
3% Developmental medicine 3% Maternal fetal medicine
2% Pulmonology
2% Neurology
DIVISION CHIEF A. Ioana Cristea, MD, MS, ATSF Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine > Connect with Dr. Cristea on Doximity.
2% Gastroenterology
34% Other
“It’s pretty evident once you spend time [at Riley Children’s] that everyone is very dedicated. You can see how committed they are to providing excellent care to patients and families. Everyone is open to doing more and doing it well—they want to build and innovate to improve child health everywhere, and to me it feels very genuine and quite powerful.”
4 board certified physicians
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Palliative care graduate training
Riley Palliative Care offers an ACGME-accredited pediatric palliative care fellowship .
Charles B. Stevenson, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAAP Division Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Riley Children’s Health Leah Mindling Abrams Professor of Neurological Oncology; Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, IU School of Medicine Connect with Dr. Stevenson on Doximity.
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