It has often been said that there is no health without mental health. Our behavioral health specialists work side by side with our medical teams in primary care and specialty clinics like oncology and transplant services.

Nebraska Medicine has long offered outpatient palliative care to patients with cancer, supporting them through every stage of their illness. Now, the service has expanded to help patients facing other serious health conditions as well.

Thanks to cancer researchers' hard work and dedication, dramatic improvements across the spectrum of cancers have increased survival rates over the past few decades.

Palliative care provides an extra layer of support for a person experiencing cancer or another serious illness.

Palliative care is for anyone with one or more chronic, potentially life-limiting illnesses who has questions about his or her symptoms and care plan.