Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell is a private, not-for-profit community-based agency that provides comprehensive, compassionate care to persons who have a limited life expectancy measured in months rather than years. We also provide home health care services and counseling for children and adults. Our primary service area is Alamance, Caswell, eastern Guilford and western Orange counties. Other contiguous areas are served on request.
We are licensed by the state for both hospice and home health care, certified by the federal Medicare program, and have received national accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, demonstrating our commitment to meeting and exceeding the highest national standards for quality.
Our mission is “to assist people affected by life-limiting illnesses to live as fully and comfortably as possible and to provide continuing support and education to their families and our community”.
We care primarily for patients in their own homes, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In 1994, we opened the 6-bed Hospice Home in Burlington, which provides around-the-clock care. The Hospice Home was expanded to 12 beds in 2002.
In 2000, we added the term “palliative” to our name to reflect additional services we provide to meet community needs and enhance our ability to care for our area. The term palliative means a “team approach to care that aims to relieve suffering and improve quality of life at any age, at any stage, and in any setting”.
We are governed by a local Board of Directors - a cross-section of Alamance and Caswell County community leaders with a variety of diverse backgrounds who support the mission of Hospice.
The Hospice League, our fundraising wing, was founded by and has been led since 1989 by a volunteer, Faye Boswell, who has chaired or co-chaired every event and overseen the over $7 million in total revenue raised by the League. Faye was awarded the nation’s most prestigious hospice volunteer honor, the National Hospice Volunteer of the Year, in 2004 at a gala celebration in Washington, D.C.
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