Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition

Improving palliative care services for the community

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Vision

The Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition (LCPCC) will be the model community organization for the support and promotion of palliative care in the border region. 

Mission

LCPCC promotes and supports quality patient care, education, advocacy, and collaboration to improve palliative care services for the community.

What is Palliative Care?

It is interdisciplinary care including doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, chaplains, pharmacists who focus on improving the quality of life for persons of any age, and their families, who are living with a chronic serious illness. It provides an extra layer of specialized holistice support at any age and any stage of disease.

Coalition Members

Terry Meyer,
M.D., FAAFP

- Retired Physician
- Founder, Mesilla Valley Hospice & Palliative Care
- Founder, Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition
www.mvhospice.org
(575) 523-4700

Traci White, PharmD, PhC, BCGP

- Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Memorial Medical Center
- Oncology and Palliative Care
- Chair, Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition
- Memorial Medical Center Cancer Center

Lorraine Padilla, B.S.

- Executive Director Mesilla Valley Hospice Foundation
- Vice-Chair, Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition

Linda Pribble
M.A., BCC

- Board Certified Chaplain
- Linda Pribble Consulting: Spiritual Care Services
- Secretary, Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition
(505) 977-8617

Michael Frederich, M.D.

- Medical Director, Hospice of the Southwest Grandview Health At Home - Las Cruces
(575) 525-2273

Jennifer Halpern, PhD, LMSW, APHSW-C

Fordham Graduate School of Social Science
Palliative Care Social Work Educator

Member Contact Information

Mesilla Valley  Hospice & Palliative Care
(575) 523-4700

Grandview Health at Home – Las Cruces
(575) 525-2273

Patient Advocate for Palliative Care
(575) 644-8404