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- EIN 58-1453827
- (336) 889-8446
- 1801 Westchester Dr High Point NC 27262-7009 USA
- www.hospiceofthepiedmont.org
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Causes: Health, Home Health Care, Hospices, Human Services
Mission: To provide compassionate interdisciplinary palliative care to patients with a prognosis of six months or less. This care is provided in the patient's home, nursing and assisted living facilities in guilford, randolph, davidson, and forsyth counties, or in the organization's fourteen bed hospice facility in high point.
Programs: Hospice homecare: an interdisciplinary team approach to end-of-life care that addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals facing a life-limiting illness and prognosis of six months or less. Care is palliative in nature, seeking comfort rather than cure. Hospice of the piedmont provided 49,971 days of care through this program to a total of 1,020 patients in 2017.
hospice home at high point: this inpatient facility provides care in a home-like setting for those who need more skilled care for symptom management, who may not have a caregiver at home, or whose primary caregiver needs a brief respite. Hospice home at high point was able to provide this level of care for 557 of its hospice patients for a total of 4,461 days of care in 2017.
piedmont palliative care services (ppcs): physicians and nurse practitioners certified in palliative medicine provided 3,612 symptom management consultations to over 1,000 patients in 2017. Ppcs also developed a home-based interdisciplinary palliative care visiting program (care connection) which served an additional 54 patients for a total of 6,699 days of care in 2017.