Professional.
Compassionate.
At the Heart of All We Do.
At Care of the Piedmont, our mission is to enrich the lives of those with advanced illness. To provide dignity, comfort and high quality care to our patients, while serving as a resource to their loved ones entrusting us in their healthcare journey.
Palliative Care
Palliative, or "supportive care," is a multi-disciplinary care focused on the reduction of the symptoms and stressors of a patient's chronic illness. Palliative care is for patients of any age, at any stage of an illness and may be provided at the same time as curative treatment.
Our palliative care team works alongside a patient’s medical providers as well as their personal support network to give a bolstered layer of support to their ongoing care. This form of treatment can be transformative for a patient, because it helps them alleviate the symptoms and stressors that come with their chronic illness.
Your palliative care team can help a patient and their loved ones learn more about their disease, care options, clarify goals for treatments, help manage pain and other symptoms, and make informed referrals to appropriate community agencies.
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Palliative Care Center
This service is available to patients with chronic medical conditions including heart failure, dementia, COPD, etc., and can be obtained with or without a referral. Contact our clinician at 864-889-0420 and ask for Palliative Care or fax patient contact information to 864-889-0413.
For clinicians: please make an external referral order via EPIC for Palliative Care.
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Inpatient Supportive Care
Consultant services with Self Regional Healthcare are available for patients who are admitted to the hospital. This requires an internal referral order for Palliative Care via EPIC.
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Home Visits
Serves patients in the Greenwood, Laurens, Edgefield, Abbeville, McCormick, Newberry Saluda counties. Patients will receive a monthly visit with a nurse practitioner within the comfort of their own home.
Did you know more than 90 percent of hospice care takes place within a patient’s home?
Our Care of the Piedmont staff will meet you – wherever you are – keeping comfort and accessibility to healthcare at the forefront of our mission. This includes visitation from our hospice medical team, chaplain, social workers and home health aides.
This service also includes a 24-hour on-call nursing support and is available wherever you reside, whether that’s in your private home, nursing home, or assisted living facility in Greenwood, Laurens, Edgefield, Abbeville, McCormick, Newberry Saluda counties.
Hospice Home Care
Care of the Piedmont’s Hospice House
Our state-of-the-art, 15-bedroom Hospice House is nestled in the peaceful area of Greenwood, South Carolina. Care of the Piedmont’s Hospice House accepts terminally ill patients who require short-term care, in need of symptom management or who require more skilled care than a loved one can ultimately provide.
Care of the Piedmont is nationally ranked in the top 10 percent of all Hospice Programs in the United States. Since 1981, Care of the Piedmont has joined the ranks of superior hospice care services – earning a Five-Star Ranking by Medicare.gov as well as the Hospice Honors Elite Status by Healthcare First.
Our care extends far beyond the journey of our patients. Care of the Piedmont honors the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of family members and friends who are suffering the loss of their loved one. These programs promote healthy grief and steps to healing from the pain of loss in a way that honors and acknowledges everyone’s unique experience and healing journey.
Care of the Piedmont offers monthly grief support groups, educational series and course materials, support for families dealing with a difficult holiday season or milestone events. To learn more, contact Reid Bishop at rbishop@hospicepiedmont.org or 864-229-8474.
You are Not Alone | Bereavement & Support Services
Whenever You’re Ready
Whenever You’re Ready is a virtual grief education series featuring Care of the Piedmont support staff. Join our team as we explore what it means to grieve well and how to take healthy steps toward healing, no matter where you are on your journey.
Project Hope | School Grief Groups and Camps for Children
Care of the Piedmont has been a recognized community resource on grief issues by physicians, health agencies and other organizations for more than 40 years. If left misunderstood, grief can manifest itself into many things – including physical illness and loss of self-esteem. This seriously affects the wellness of children.
Through close cooperation with community organizations such as schools, hospitals, pediatrician’s offices, county health departments, and churches, we hope to better identify and assist children who have been impacted by significant loss through illness, tragedy and violence.
When grief is not processed, those feelings may show up later as misdirected anger, fears of abandonment, numbing, panic, sleep disturbance, and even learning disabilities. Unprocessed grief can be caused by a number of “grief triggers,” in a young person’s life, including the death of a loved one, divorce, abandonment, illness or disability, incarceration of a parent or sibling, loss of a pet, fire, flood or relocation.
We, at Care of the Piedmont, recognize how important it is for children to process grief in their own way. Our mission is to help them overcome and bear the burden of these obstacles with age-appropriate strategies alongside understanding peers.
School Grief Groups
In cooperation with local schools and guidance counselors, Care of the Piedmont staff provides support groups on-site to grieving children and teens at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. These groups help the youth cope with their grief and commemorate their loved one.
Camp Celebrate Hope
Camp Celebrate Hope is for children ages 6-14 who have experienced the death of a family member or a significant person in their lives. At Camp Celebrate Hope, participants learn about their grief and are encouraged to speak openly about issues of death and their grieving experience within a group of children their own age. Children learn new skills to help them build confidence and hope for the future. Together they create friendships and support that allow them to identify and express their feelings in a safe and caring environment. They also get the chance to participate in fun and organized activities.
Camp Celebrate Hope is available to children in Greenwood, Laurens, Edgefield, Abbeville, McCormick, Newberry, and Saluda counties. The staff and volunteers at Camp Celebrate Hope are specially trained to work with grieving children and youth. Camp staff includes social workers, nurses, chaplain, and volunteers from the community. For more information or to make a referral, please call Care of the Piedmont at 864-227-9393.
Honoring Veterans
Thanking veterans for their service using a pinning ceremony is a special privilege for our staff. Shortly after or during admission, the “pinning” ceremony takes place. The ceremony consists of our staff formally thanking a veteran and presenting them with a flag lapel pin and a certificate of appreciation for their service to our country. It is very meaningful to veterans, their families, and our staff. During the pinning ceremony, veterans or family members have the opportunity to share memories of the veteran’s military experience. There are tears and laughter at times, but there is always pride expressed with every memory shared.
Outreach is another important part of this program that fits well with Care of the Piedmont’s vision of working in partnership with our community to provide exceptional care to all who need it. Many of our staff members are available to present various topics to increase veteran awareness of hospice services, advanced directives and end-of-life issues. We continually seek to establish relationships with veteran organizations to gain partners in our service to veterans and to gain new insights and ways to Honor Veterans.
Care of the Piedmont introduced the We Honor Veterans program to our service area in September 2012. This program was developed as a joint effort between the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization to identify, recognize and serve military veterans.
Our organization has always felt privileged to care for those service members who have given so much to our country. It is important to ensure veterans and their families receive recognition for their sacrifice, have access to all the benefits and services due them, and that their unique experiences are included in care decisions. We have utilized the tools and structure provided by the We Honor Veterans program to improve our service to veterans. Veteran-specific educational material is frequently used to train clinical staff to meet the unique needs of veterans. Each veteran is given the opportunity to request a veteran volunteer for support. Our hospice social workers assist veterans and families with obtaining veteran benefits and increasing awareness of available benefits.
Want More Information?
Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information about our services and admission criteria.