Hospice and Palliative Care (HPC) collectively represent a continuum of comfort-oriented and supportive services provided in the home, community, outpatient or inpatient settings for persons with advanced life-limiting disease. Palliative care is a broad term that includes hospice care as well as other care that emphasizes symptom control, but does not require the presence of an imminently terminal condition, a time-limited prognosis, or foregoing treatment options.

On October 1st, 2010, the North Chicago VA Medical Center integrated with the Naval Health Clinic, Great Lakes to form the Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC).  The facility is located just 13 miles south of the Illinois/Wisconsin border approximately equidistant between Chicago and Milwaukee.  Offering a choice of three international airports, the excitement of the 'Big City' with the beauty of the rural countryside, there are countless activities to engage a wide variety of personal hobbies and interests.  The facility itself has opened a new parking structure and a new outpatient clinical addition.  Serving inpatient, outpatient, and long term care patients including the unique populations of veterans, eligible military beneficiaries and their family members, the Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center has a unique mission unlike any other facility in the United States.

For more information on the Department of Veterans Affairs, go to http://www.vacareers.va.gov/