Fact Sheet

Local

• Care, support and planning for life's transitions;
• Community-based, nonprofit healthcare AND service agency;
• Providing care in the Greensboro community for over 30 years;
• Providing palliative care (caring for symptoms of disease) when cure is not possible;
• Emphasizes quality rather than length of life;
• Considers the entire family, not just the patient, as the "unit of care;"
• Offers help and support to the patient and family 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;
• Services provided by a team of trained professionals – doctors, nurses, nurse techs, social workers, and volunteers;
• Is a covered benefit under most insurance plans, and Medicare and Medicaid;
• Care available for all ages and for persons with varied illnesses, including cancer; end-stage heart, lung, liver, or kidney disease; end-stage Alzheimer's disease; or failure to thrive syndrome.

State

• All 100 counties in North Carolina have hospice services.
• Over the past 21 years, hospices in North Carolina have served over 160,000 patients and their families
• For more information, visit the Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life
• National
• There are over 3,000 hospice programs in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
• Nearly 450,000 patients are served each year by a hospice in the United States.
• For more information, visit the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.