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Calvary Hospital
Calvary Hospital is the only fully accredited acute care specialty hospital exclusively providing palliative care for advanced cancer patients in the United States. With 225 beds in the Bronx and Brooklyn and more than 800 employees, we serve more than 3,500 patients annually. We provide palliative care, which is the active treatment of the symptoms, not the cure of the disease, in order to make our patients as comfortable as possible. Our programs include inpatient care, case management, outpatient care, hospice, home care and support programs for families and friends.
 Since its inception in 1899, Calvary Hospital has been faithfully devoted to providing palliative care to adult patients in the advanced stages of cancer, addressing the symptoms of the disease, not its cure.
A voluntary, not-for-profit hospital,operated in connection with the Archdiocese of New York, Calvary continues to embody this tradition of caring through the services and programs offered and through the dedication and concern shown by its staff members.
The Hospital will continue to be faithful to this tradition through a two-fold commitment. Calvary will strive primarily to expand its programs and services to meet the emerging physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of both patients and families through the provision of inpatient, outpatient, hospice and home care services. In addition, through the Palliative Care Institute, the Hospital will endeavor to transmit to other healthcare professionals, through research and education, our knowledge and expertise in the care of the advanced cancer patient.
Through this two-fold commitment, Calvary Hospital will deepen and strengthen the philosophy of compassionate care, which has been the cornerstone of its program of service, and will offer to others a tradition of successful experience in the care of the advanced cancer patient.
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