The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care (TLCPC) is dedicated to the relief of suffering, and the improvement of quality of life. In addition, the Centre is actively involved in furthering palliative care services at a local, provincial, and national level.

Members of the Centre are respected and renowned leaders in the development and implementation of unique and innovative palliative care programs. They are recognized authorities in the areas of standards of practice, wound care management, education, pain and symptom control, and grief and bereavement counselling.

Since opening its doors in 1989, the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care has become one of Canada’s largest centres in palliative care. TLCPC offers a wide range of services for patients and those who care for them. The Centre’s innovative Home Palliative Care Program supports people who are dying from a terminal illness and enables them to be cared for at home. The Max and Beatrice Wolfe Centre for Children’s Grief and Palliative Care is the only specialized centre in Ontario that offers medical and counseling support for dying children and their families in their home. The TLCPC’s Dr. Jay Grief Program educates and supports children who have a loved one who is dying or who has died. Staff of the Centre also strives to improve palliative care through many research projects and professional education initiatives.

• Each year, the staff of TLCPC care for over 2,500 adults and children.

• The Centre is affiliated with the University of Toronto and other educational institutions and teaches over 1,000 health care professionals about palliative care each year.

• Our home care palliative care program is one of the largest in North America and provides care to over 500 patients on a daily basis. Our dedicated physicians are available 24/7 and respond quickly to patient and family needs. We work in close collaborations with other agencies like the Community Care Access Centres and our community nursing agencies to help over 60 per cent of our patients to die in comfort and with dignity at home

• The Max and Beatrice Wolfe Centre for Children’s Grief and Palliative Care and its Dr. Jay Children’s Grief Program provide outstanding support to children and their families. Our dedicated counselors use a wide variety of counseling techniques including art therapy and other expressive arts therapies and literature to help support children and their families. Special events like camp days provide a different approach to supporting children by using play therapy to address their concerns and teach them about life and death and the life cycle.