When Hospice Becomes A Home:
The Dr. Robert Martin Fales Pavilion at the Hospice Care Center

What is the Hospice Care Center?
The Hospice Care Center, 1406 Physicians Drive in Wilmington, is southeastern North Carolina's only hospice inpatient facility. Patients receive short-term medical and respite care in a homelike environment. Twelve private patient and family suites, living areas and courtyard gardens are designed to meet the needs of hospice patients and their visiting loved ones and families. More than 4,200 patients have been admitted to the Hospice Care Center since it opened in 1997. Our scrapbook has photos of the Hospice Care Center. When the Hospice Care Center is full, three private rooms are available at Davis Health Care Center for patients who require more intense hospice care nursing services.

Who staffs the Hospice Care Center?
The center is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by a professional hospice team of physicians, registered nurses and certified nursing assistants, social workers, chaplains, bereavement counselors and volunteers.

Who is admitted to the Hospice Care Center?
Most patients receive hospice care in their home. Patients are admitted to the Hospice Care Center for around-the-clock monitoring, for family members to gain caregiving skills or receive rest from caregiving, and if home care is not possible during the last few days of life.

What is the Hospice Care Center Celebration of Life mural?
The entrance of the Hospice Care Center features Celebration of Life, a ceramic tile mural that offers a unique way to commemorate others and to ensure that hospice care is always available.