Right at Home in Burke County, Your non-profit hospice provider
MORGANTON -- As a Burke County native with 13 years of hospice experience, it is an honor to utilize my knowledge to serve my community as the vice president of the Burke Service Area at AMOREM, formerly Burke Hospice and Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care.
In my role at AMOREM, I direct and supervise day-to-day operations in AMOREM’s Burke service area. My goal is to share my commitment to the hospice philosophy while representing AMOREM within my community. I strive to coordinate interactions within our service area to facilitate continuity of care and quality services for those that AMOREM has the privilege to serve.
Since 1974, the hospice care grassroots movement has moved throughout America, with a philosophy centered around care being rendered in the home of patients and families. Understanding the importance of the national value of keeping families together, AMOREM provides care within whatever setting a patient and their family may consider home. This includes but is not limited to, private residences, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities. Regardless of location, AMOREM’s teams are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet the needs of our patients and their families.
When a patient’s needs exceed the scope of care in the home, inpatient care may be offered in one of AMOREM’s patient care units. Inpatient hospice care has been offered in Burke County since the 1990’s and fortunately, our Burke County community continues to have access to the Valdese patient care unit. AMOREM is proud to be the only hospice organization to offer a local patient care unit.
Beginning as a volunteer program, AMOREM has been providing end-of-life care to Burke County residents since 1981. As a community-owned, non-profit hospice, AMOREM has had the privilege to serve approximately half of Burke County’s residents during their end-of-life journey; serving nearly 480 Burke residents last year.
In 2021, Burke Hospice and Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care merged to create AMOREM with the vision to transform the way that people view and experience serious illness and end-of-life care while fostering a culture of compassionate, innovative care. The two legacy organizations coming together has allowed AMOREM to strengthen its presence in the community and have a larger impact on patients, their families and the community at large. AMOREM remains your local, community-owned hospice that provides expanded resources for you and your family.
AMOREM utilizes an interdisciplinary team to create a holistic approach to enable patients to live the remainder of their lives with dignity. While every end-of-life experience is different and unique, life becomes more precious when it is limited. For this reason, AMOREM focuses on the goals of care of both the patient and family with a specific focus on the quality of life.
AMOREM is governed by a 15-member local volunteer board of directors, many of whom were appointed from both legacy organizations. The current chair of AMOREM’s board of directors, Jordan Greene, is a Burke County native. Like many of the organization’s board members, there are numerous AMOREM team members from the legacy Burke organization who have continued to provide quality, compassionate support to their community while building and growing their careers at the organization.
It is an honor and a true privilege to serve as the Vice President of the Burke Service Area at AMOREM, the only non-profit hospice care provider in the Burke area.