Hospice care should be considered for anyone with a life-limiting or terminal illness. It is not a place to go when you have given up or only for the last days of life. Hospice is a program that helps patients and their families live as fully, comfortably and independently as they can – when curative […]
No one should take the end-of-life journey alone, but quality end-of-life care remains a mystery to many people. Here are a few factors: Myth – Most people think that hospice is a place. More than 90 percent of Lower Cape Fear Hospice patients are served where they live: private residences, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, […]
A 2014 report by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) stated that one in four Americans have multiple chronic conditions (heart and renal disease, diabetes, COPD, cancer, and dementia). That number rises to three in four in people who are 65 and older. Having multiple chronic illnesses increases someone’s chance of premature death, reoccurring and […]
Lower Cape Fear Hospice is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the highest level of care and comfort to patients with life-limiting illness; support and counseling to families; and education to the community.
910.796.7937
800.207.6908
FAX: 910.796.7903
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Lower Cape Fear Hospice
Home Office
1414 Physicians Drive
Wilmington, NC 28401
910.796.7900 or 800.733.1476
FAX: 910.796.7901
Lower Cape Fear Hospice
Mercy Care
8216 Devon Court
Myrtle Beach, SC 29572
843.848.6480
FAX: 843.848.6655
