High Country Capital Campaign

AMOREM SECU PATIENT CARE UNIT OF THE HIGH COUNTRY

Hospice patients often need more support to address pain, symptoms and needs at end of life than can be provided at home. Currently, High Country residents must travel one to two hours to reach the closest hospice patient care unit. In 2021, the state granted AMOREM’s request to build a patient care unit in the High Country. AMOREM launched the Quality. Compassion. Support. capital campaign and broke ground on the project in September 2023.

The patient care unit has seven beds with a full-time local staff dedicated to providing compassionate end-of-life care for residents of Ashe, Avery and Watauga counties. The homelike environment will provide large patient rooms and comfortable family areas in a peaceful setting on Moonstruck Lane in Boone, NC. Appalachian Architecture designed the beautiful facility and Greene Construction has overseen the project. 

Through community support, corporate gifts and grants, AMOREM has raised $6.6 million toward its goal.

"As a nonprofit hospice provider, AMOREM needs the community’s help to reach its $8.3 million goal,” says AMOREM’s Senior Director of Marketing and Development Kerri L. McFalls. “We have come so far with reaching the goal and are incredibly grateful for the support we have received. But we can’t stop now. AMOREM needs everyone’s help to raise the remaining $1.64 million of the goal.”

Will you partner with AMOREM to provide more quality, more compassion and more support to the High Country?