NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue opens new Palliative Care Serenity Unit for patients and families

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue opens new Palliative Care Serenity Unit for patients and families 
NYC Health+Hospitals Press Release; 3/7/24 
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue today announced the opening of a new Palliative Care Serenity Unit for patients and families. ... “We created the Serenity Unit because we noted an increasing number of patients either spending their dying days at the hospital or in need of extra support and symptom management expertise that palliative care provides,” said Susan E. Cohen, MD, director of the Palliative Care Program at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. “We want to ensure that patients who are here in their final days are being treated with dignity and expertise.”
Editor's Note: NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is the oldest hospital in America, tracing their roots back to 1736 when a six-bed infirmary opened on the second floor of the New York City Almshouse. Today, Bellevue is the medical facility for dignitaries visiting New York City, including the President of the United States and United Nations diplomats.