Palliative Treatment Improves Quality of Life for Hospitalized Patients

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published April 6, 2016 at 12:49 PM CDT

Palliative care, a relatively new field of medicine, provides holistic treatment to hospital patients with serious illness. We meet a physician who directs a palliative care team at Washington Regional in Fayetteville to better understand what it is and how it works.

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