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Hospice Steering Committee Formed
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Anonymous $27,500 gift & 1st Meeting of the Membership
HPCG opened in a windowless office in the basement of the Public Health Department -
Patient Care Initiated
Wyman Rousseau was Hospice’s first Board president; Denise Roseborough, RN, and Nancy Schuman, MSW, its first staff. Patient care was initiated in 1982 with these two part-time employees and the support of the Public Health Department — both for professional assistance and a donated one-room office. Volunteers were trained and participated in care from day one. -
Moses Cone Memorial Hospital proposes joint venture
Recognizing the need for strong community-based services, in 1984 the Moses Cone Memorial Hospital approached the local Hospice Board to propose a joint venture to help expand the program. Later that year, Cone Hospital became the institutional member of Hospice at Greensboro, making a one-time equity investment in the agency (equal to the organization’s assets at that time) and appointment of six of the twelve members to a reconstituted Board of Directors. Its first task was to hire the agency’ -
Executive Director, Pam Barrett, hired
Pam Barrett, social work director at a hospital in Tennessee with hospice experience, was hired in January 1985. First on the agenda was relocation to appropriate space for the small but growing professional and volunteer staff. The new upstairs home was located at 811 North Elm Street and was shared with the Lutheran Family Services. Within six months Hospice at Greensboro was certified by Medicare to receive funding for its professional services, a step necessary to develop a full-service hosp -
247 Patients & Inpatient Hospice Opened
HPCG reaches 247 patients. First inpatient hospice unit in NC opened at Moses Cone; 3rd office: 706 North Greene. -
Grief Counseling Center Opened
Although bereavement care has been a vital component of hospice care since its inception, Hospice at Greensboro expanded its scope by opening the first community-based grief counseling center in North Carolina in 1989. Today the generous support of our community through memorial giving and the United Way allows Hospice to offer grief education and support without charge for Hospice families and the community at large -
Permanent Location Opened
Following a move into the McAlister House, then located next to the First Presbyterian Church at 706 North Greene Street and later expansion for its Grief Counseling Center at 705 North Greene Street, Hospice’s Board of Directors initiated a plan to provide a permanent home for Hospice. In 1990 a successful community-wide capital campaign was conducted. Hospice dedicated its new home in 1991 to former mayor and early Board member Vic Nussbaum and his wife, Terry, who was cared for by Hospice at -
Beacon Place Opened
Hospice at Greensboro began caring for children and for an increasing number of persons with non-cancer diagnoses, including AIDS. As the epidemic grew, Hospice at Greensboro partnered with the local AIDS service organization, Triad Health Project, and Hospice of the Piedmont in High Point to open a unique AIDS priority hospice residence, Beacon Place, in June 1996. Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., its primary benefactor, noted its purpose: “Vivere in pace”—Live in Peace. As some success has been achieved -
777 Patients & Kids Path
HPCG reaches 777 patients. The 20th Anniversary Campaign resulted in the opening of Kids Path.; palliative care expansion. -
Kids Path Opens
Kids Path is located at 2504 Summit Avenue, on the campus of Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro (HPCG) Originally founded in Greensboro, Kids Path is a specialized program for children offered by HPCG. The Kids Path Consortium is now comprised of Greensboro, and ten other Kids Path programs in North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. -
New Graphic Identity Launched
HPCG’s Board of Directors approved a new visual identity on January 24, which was revealed today at the employee staff meeting. While marketing collaterals, including print and new media will reflect the change immediately, an updated and consumer-driven website is scheduled for later this summer.
“We want to encompass the viewpoint of the consumer as well as the caregiver,” said Paul Russ, vice president of marketing and development. “In the past, HPCG’s visual identity represented our buildin
