Our Services

Hospice Care

Those We Serve
Hospice of the Carolina Foothills serves residents of Polk County, N.C., and upper Spartanburg and Greenville counties in South Carolina. We help anyone with a diagnosed end-stage illness of any type, providing care at home, in nursing homes, in rest homes, in assisted living and retirement communities and in hospitals. We strive to meet the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals and their families.

A Team Approach
Hospice provides an interdisciplinary team that includes a medical director, nurses, certified nursing assistants, social workers, bereavement professionals, chaplains, and extensively trained volunteers. We provide emotional and spiritual support for the patient and family, as well as physical care. We want each patient to be able to live his/her life to the fullest for whatever time is left to them.

Together with the patient, the patient’s family and his/her personal physician, our team develops an individualized care plan. The team works together with each patient and family to help manage pain and control the symptoms associated with illness.

The Cost of Our Services
The cost of hospice care is covered by Medicare/Medicaid benefits and/or the patient's private insurance. However, our services are available to terminally ill people without regard to their insurance coverage or ability to pay. We continue to rely on the community's generous financial support to meet these needs.

Nursing Homes
We provide comfort and care in the following area nursing homes, rest homes, assisted living facilities and retirement communities:

• Autumn Care, Saluda, N.C.
• Camp Care, Inman, S.C.
• Golden Age, Inman, S.C.
• Inman Health Care, Inc., Inman, S.C.
• LaurelWoods/LaurelHurst, Columbus, N.C.
• Magnolia Manor, Inman, S.C.
• Ridge Rest, Tryon, N.C.
• Tryon Estates, Columbus, N.C.
• White Oak Manor, Tryon, N.C.

Getting to Know Me
"Getting to Know Me" (GKM) is an exciting new team approach to care for hospice patients who have dementia of any type.

It includes specialized training for hospice staff and volunteers, as well as nursing home staff. Families of those with dementia will also receive attention, including a "Guide to Dementia Care for Families," a booklet filled with education and helpful information written by our medical director and other staff members.

This approach also includes sensory resources and group work for patients in nursing homes.

We started in program in March 2007 in two nursing homes, and from there, will expand the program to all the nursing homes we serve, and eventually to patients at home.

Check back for updates and news.

The Jean Eckert Fund
Established in 2001 and named after our Executive Director, this fund is part of the Kirby Endowment at the Polk County Community Foundation. It is used "to take advantage of unanticipated, unbudgeted opportunities to make the end of life as acceptable and pleasant as possible for all concerned." Every year, the fund brightens the lives of countless patients and family members.

Hospice staff are able to make birthdays and anniversaries special occasions, with cakes, balloons and flowers. Hospice is able to provide those little extras such as tickets to a baseball game or concert, large print Bibles, new slippers, milkshakes or a new hairdo. And they occasionally provide more significant items such as a plane ticket or Christmas gifts. The Jean Eckert Fund plays a vital role in helping hospice fulfill its mission.

[ Click here to read more ways the fund has brightened people’s lives. ]