Contact us
Phone: 514-340-8222, ext. 22845
Fax: 514-734-9929
Where to find us
Pavilion B-452
Overview
Palliative care strives to meet physical, psychological, social and spiritual expectations and needs of patients and their families while remaining sensitive to personal, cultural and religious values, beliefs and practices. Palliative care may be combined with therapies aimed at reducing or curing the illness, or it may be the total focus of care including music therapy.
The 13-bed palliative care unit, located on the fourth floor of Pavilion B at the JGH, is newly renovated, with private spacious rooms and accommodation for loved ones.
Services
The clinical services of the Palliative Care Division include the following:
- Palliative medicine outpatient clinics organized in medical oncology, radiation oncology clinics and family medicine clinics
- Home care of terminally ill patients in collaboration with CLSCs and The Victoria Order of Nurses. Specialized phone support to families and community caregivers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Palliative Care physicians also visit a large number of these patients at home.
- Consultation-liaison with all hospital clinical services where patients living with cancer or another life-threatening illness might be hospitalized.
- Bereavement support in collaboration with Hope & Cope.
Staff
Medical Director
Dr. Jean Zigby, MD
Head Nurse 4M
Kathia Dorcélus-Cétoute, M.Sc.N
Nurses' station 4M
514-340-8222, ext. 25422
Doctors
Dr. Jean Zigby
Dr. Harvey Chang
Dr. Marcia Gillman
Dr. Elizabeth MacNamara
Dr. Diana-Elena Schifirnet
Dr. David Sanmiguel
Dr. Michael Bouhadana
Dr. Tamara Ibrahim
Dr. Sani James Karam
Dr. Houman Farzin
Dr. Jonathan Hudon
Dr. Talia Abecassis
Dr. Golnar Abbasi
Dr. Marie-Rose Shoucri
Dr. Claudine Maari
Dr. Thomas de Gabory
Dr. Sebastian-Mihai Georgescu
Dr. Michael Bouhadana
Nurses
Nurse Consultant in palliative care
Areti Anastassopoulos, RN, BN, CHPCN(c)
Nurse Navigator in palliative care
Sorphea Hul, RN, BN
Nurse practitioner in adult care
Liliana Moreno Chinome
Nurse practitioner candidate in adult care
Laura Michaudville, M. Sc. N.