Institute History

The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is a New York-based not-for-profit organization affiliated with MJHS, the integrated health system founded by the Four Brooklyn Ladies in 1907.

The Institute was founded by Russell Portenoy, MD, voted one of the 30 “visionaries” in palliative care by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is now under the leadership of Eni Bakallbashi, MBA/MPA, who is responsible for overseeing organization, planning, implementation, tracking, and dissemination of the Institute’s work.

The goal of the MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is to promote access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or advanced illness, whenever and wherever palliative care is needed across the continuum of health care.

The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care pursues this goal through an array of on-site and web-based educational programs and thorough research that focuses on the needs of populations with serious illness.