Center to Advance Palliative Care

You'all would be more than welcome to visit our 11-bed designated PC unit here at VCU in Richmond, VA. Our PC MDs are the attendings on record and we are administratively run under our cancer center (though not geographically located within the actual walls of a cancer unit or cancer center). Thus we don't quite match your criteria and I'm not sure anyone else will -- I suspect that your criteria may be too narrow to find any such match. In most cases any PC-dedicated or -designated unit will have a PC MD as the attending. That is in fact one of the primary motivations for having such a unit -- providing the medical and nursing care in a PC-specific fashion. If you're interested in a visit or knowing more, please contact Carrie Cybulski at ccybulski@mcvh-vcu.edu to find out the parameters for visits, or she can give you the contact info for our nurse manager or clinical director to whom you could talk or email for more info. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Brian Cassel, VCU PCLC, jbcassel@vcu.edu, 804-628-1926.