Hero's Path Palliative Care

Vision: To empower children with serious illness to live fully by providing outstanding, customized palliative care services.

Mission: To provide compassionate, thoughtful, family-centered, home-based pediatric palliative care and to offer resources including respite, education and networking to support child and family on their path to wellness.

Values:

Connected: Children and families enjoy connection to each other and the community through effective, collaborative care, education and inclusive events.

Empowered: Children and families benefit from an extra layer of support as the palliative care team ensures their advocacy is meaningful.

Understood: Children and families feel validated throughout goal-setting and decision making by an understanding palliative care team.

Important: Children and families experience customized services that highlight their unique value and importance.

 History: My son, James, is my biggest hero. James had many complex medical problems and yet smiled and lived a full life through it all. In December 2018, James died on hospice after a year of decline. We had to get most of his services in Denver, CO because they weren't available in New Mexico. These experiences have motivated us to provide the same kind of compassionate, professional medical help to families like ours. Home-based palliative care services would have addressed many of the needs our family had throughout James' life, promoting quality of life, collaboration among specialists, and support for our other children and us as parents. James' story is not unique. In fact, there are three families represented on our Board of Directors who have faced these unmet needs in their own personal journeys with their children. James' strength, perseverance, and endurance motivates us to live the same way. We desire to continue his legacy through offering these services to others, compassionately.

We will provide home-based pediatric palliative care with a specialized medical team and volunteers to children and families with serious illness in New Mexico. This includes education, 24/7 medical care, goal planning, pain and symptom management, and care coordination.