Philene (Bean) Cromwell, R.N., M.S., P.N.P.
Philene Cromwell is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who helped develop and now directs the medical team for CompassionNet, an all-inclusive home-based pediatric palliative care program in Upstate New York. The CompassionNet team has an informal yet close working relationship with local hospitals in 3 large Upstate New York Hospitals and has served over 1100 families since its inception. Her clinical role includes pediatric nurse practitioner consultation for pain and symptom management, leading and facilitating conversations with children and their families to determine goals of care, and supporting and caring for the terminally ill child and their family when the child is nearing the end of life.
As a member of the HYPCANYS’ Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Advisory Board, Ms. Cromwell helped develop the core curriculum for NYS trainings in pediatric palliative care. She presents at the HYPCANYS trainings and at other regional and national palliative care fora. She is a PELNEC trainer and has facilitated sessions at IPPC.
Prior to her work at CompassionNet, she was employed at Golisano Children’s Hospital for 23 years, including 11 years in pediatric hematology/oncology, where she co-directed the Pediatric Comprehensive Brain Tumor Clinic.