About Trellis Supportive Care
Providing hospice and palliative care since 1979, our staff is made up of specially trained professionals who work as a team to help patients and their families live fully and comfortably, with hope — even during life’s most challenging time.
Trellis Supportive Care, formerly Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, was the first hospice program in the state of North Carolina.
Hospice care has been the cornerstone of our care; and over the years, we have introduced new and expanded programs. These programs include grief counseling and advance care planning — both free of charge — for anyone in the community, as well as expanded palliative care services designed to meet the needs of patients earlier in the disease process. We reached an important milestone in 1998 when we opened our Kate B. Reynolds (KBR) Hospice Home so that we could provide around-the-clock care to our patients and families who need short-term inpatient care or respite care.
Our Mission
Trellis Supportive Care, provides compassionate care for those individuals living with a life-limiting illness and their families, through quality medical, emotional, spiritual, and social support.
Our Vision
With support from our communities, we will provide the absolute best in compassionate, competent, and cost-effective end-of-life healthcare to all who need it.
Our Core Values
Commitment: Committed first and foremost to the delivery of Compassionate Care for all of our constituencies (patients, families, payors, community, and each other).
Compassion: Compassionate Care is at the very heart of what we do and why we exist. Compassionate Care values human dignity. It is doing the right thing for the right reason. It differentiates us from all other providers.
Competence: Competent Care is the first essential step to providing Compassionate Care. It is leading edge and cost competitive with any other credible provider.
Community: Community support is our ultimate edge in providing Compassionate Care. It enables us to constructively enlist the collaborative support of volunteers and other community entities, creating the capacity to meet community needs.
Creativity: Creativity is tapping the brilliance within ourselves and our community to generate ideas that will continually improve Compassionate Care in the face of all that might challenge it.
Our History
In 1977, we were founded by members of our community who believed in a better way to care for people at end of life. As the first hospice in North Carolina, we have remained at the forefront, expanding services to meet the needs of patients and families in our community. We have made it our mission to provide compassionate care for those individuals living with a life-limiting illness and their families, through quality medical, emotional, spiritual, and social support. Our staff has grown from a dozen individuals to over 340 specially trained professionals who work as a team to help patients live fully and comfortably, with hope — even during life’s most challenging time.
The KBR Hospice Home opened in 1998 with 20 private patient rooms on a wooded lot off of Burke Mill Road. Our Hospice Home offers around-the-clock care to our patients and families who need short-term inpatient care or respite care. Ten more beds were added in 2005 and with the demand for Hospice services growing at a constant rate, our Board and staff took the steps necessary and added ten additional rooms in 2010 so that no one has to be told, “There’s no more room.”
While much has changed over the decades, our commitment to providing care, comfort, and compassion has stayed the same.
Partnerships
Since 1979, hospice care has been the cornerstone of our care; but over the years, we have introduced new and expanded programs. These programs include grief counseling and advance care planning — both free of charge — for anyone in the community, as well as expanded palliative care services designed to meet the needs of patients earlier in the disease process. We reached an important milestone in 1998 when we opened our Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home so that we could provide around-the-clock care to our patients and families who need short-term inpatient care or respite care.