Learning Labs - Detroit Receiving Hospital
Detroit Receiving Hospital is an urban, Level 1, trauma-emergency hospital with 300 beds with Medical, Surgical, Neurotrauma, and Burn ICUs.  Affiliated with Wayne State University, 94 percent of admissions are via the Emergency Department.  Medical staff is composed of university professors, residents, and hospitalists.

DRH established its palliative care service in 1986.  It is an interdisciplinary, inpatient service with no fixed staff except an Advanced Practice Nurse.  Since the hospital employs a scatter-bed approach to the care of the dying, all hospital staff are resources and are competent in end-of-life care.  Managed by a nurse practitioner and physician team, the service responds to consults across the hospital, taking over the care of dying patients in most cases, but also providing advice in the traditional consultant fashion.  The palliative care service provides training and education to hospital staff and students and trainees, and conducts clinical research and process improvement.

Please visit www.drhuhc.org/drhuhc/palliativecare/