e-mail address:
hospicerc@triadbiz.rr.com

Hospice of Rockingham County's

Hospice Home

"We were very pleased with everything at the Hospice Home.
The staff was very caring, patient, kind and cordial.  The appearance
 of Hospice Home was clean, "home like" and made you feel like you were
special as well as the patient.  I have recommended Hospice Home to many
of my friends.  It's a place I would like to spend my final days."
                                                                                    --Kathryn Rodgers

Opened in November of 2007, our state-of-the-art facility offers five beds for residential care as well as three beds for inpatient care.  All rooms are private rooms and offer 24-hour nursing care, personal care services, counseling and chaplain support.  Our facility is a unique resource available in Rockingham County.

Patients admitted to our facility must have a life-limiting illness with a prognosis of two months or less to live (in the opinion of their physician and HRC's medical director).  The patient's main goal is comfort care and not aggressive treatment of their disease.  In addition, Hospice Home patients can no longer be adequately cared for at home.

In general terms, inpatient beds are for those patients needing pain control and symptom management.  The residential beds are for patients most likely in their last six to eight weeks of life who have an inadequate caregiver situation at home.  Patients who stabilize and/or improve are provided assistance in making alternative arrangements.  These arrangements may include moving to a long-term care facility or returning to their own homes.  It is our hope that in most cases we can continue to serve the patient at either a local facility or their private residence.

To reach our Hospice Home, please call (336) 427-0218.

For a virtual tour of our Hospice Home, please click here
 

     Hospice Home Highlights

Each of our eight patient rooms is comfortably appointed and includes a private bath, oversized armchair with a pull-out bed, television and DVD player, small refrigerator, microwave, & coffee maker.  There is a living room/dining room/kitchen available for families' comfort and convenience.  There is a chapel/meditation room as well as a sun porch and both are always open for anyone seeking a quiet refuge.

We also have a large community room available for use by nonprofit service organizations in the area.  If you are interested in reserving our community room for a meeting, please call Barbara Moore at (336) 427-9026, extension 402.

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Memory Garden

When we opened our Hospice Home, a new way to remember friends and family was born.  Just outside the front doors of the facility, there is now a memory garden made of attractive brick pavers.  Donors may have a paver inscribed with up to three lines of text; each line may contain up to 18 letters, characters, or spaces.  For additional information on ordering a paver, please see our Donor Opportunities pages.  The paver garden is pictured below:

In-Kind Donations

We often have civic clubs and church groups ask for a list of items they may collect and donate to our Hospice Home.  Below is a partial list of items used in our Hospice Home.  For a complete list, please call HRC at (336) 427-9022 or email us at hospicerc@triadbiz.rr.com.

Items Needed for Hospice Home:

**Clorox (regular)
**Unscented fabric softener sheets
**Lysol (Crisp Linen Scent)
**Folger's coffee (regular & decaf)
**Tea bags (decaf)
**7 oz. liquid handsoap dispensers
Office supplies (black pens, post-it notes, steno pads)
Ensure/Boost or generic nutritional supplement (all flavors, especially strawberry)
Juices in 1/2 gal containers (apple, white cranberry, white grape)
Soft drinks in small bottles or cans (no diet drinks, please)
Ginger Ale in 2 liter bottles
Kleenex tissues
Plastic spoons, knives, forks
For the courtesy cart:
Individually wrapped candy bars, cookies, chips/crackers, peanuts, & fruit bars
Small (i.e. approx. 6 oz.) cans or bottles of soft drinks
**Frequently Used Items