Year-end giving to support AMOREM in the High Country
(Published December 2025)
BOONE—As the 2025 year comes to a close, many are considering charitable donations to make a gift for. Year-end giving is a popular way for individuals to support the non-profits that mean the most to them. AMOREM hopes those who are undecided on where to give, will consider a gift to its capital campaign to bring a inpatient hospice facility to the High Country.
Last summer, an open house celebration was held for the AMOREM SECU Patient Care Unit of the High Country. The unit is named for the State Employees Credit Union Foundation who provided a $1.5 million dollar gift to the project.
Following the open house the faclity was inspected by state officials. During the inspection some items were noted that AMOREM must address before the facility can start caring for patients. The current goal is to have the facility open and ready for patients after the first of the year.
Despite the building being complete, AMOREM must raise $1.6 million of its $8.1 million dollar goal to cover the remaining cost of the project. “We still need the community’s support to get this patient care unit open and ready to serve individuals and their families at the end of life,” says Chief Growth and Development Officer Kerri L. McFalls. “The goal has always been to open this facility debt free and because of the continued support from the community, we should be able to.”
The patient care unit is the only facility of its kind to serve the High Country. Prior to, individuals needing inpatient hospice care had to either receive that support in a hospital settting or drive down the mountain to one of AMOREM’s units in either Caldwell or Burke counites.
Being a non-profit hospice and palliative medicine provider, AMOREM will provide care to anyone regardless of their ability to pay. Because of its generous donors, AMOREM was able to provide care to 5,694 patients and families this past fiscal year:
- 1,470 patients received hospice care.
- 1,880 patients received palliative medicine.
- 98 veterans honored and saluted.
- $1,332,237.79 care provided regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.
- 1,967 hospice family members and 279 community members (non-hospice) received services through our grief support services.
And now, more than ever, a gift to AMOREM’s capital campaign can have double the impact. An anonymous donor pledged to match gifts from the community, dollar for dollar, up to $250k.
“We hope that the High Country will take advantage of this matching gift challenge and double their year-end giving impact,” McFalls said. “The High Country community has been very generous to us in the last few years – we hope they will see this project to the finish.”
AMOREM also is actively seeking nurses and certified nursing assistants to staff the new facility. “This is an opportunity for someone to be a part of and staff a historical facility opening,” McFalls said. For those interested in career opportunities at the new patient care unit, visit the careers page at www.amoremsupport.org.
AMOREM is the result of the 2021 merger of two like-minded, respected and well-established North Carolina organizations—Burke Hospice and Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care—to maintain the legacy of community-based hospice care.
AMOREM is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization under section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.