RALEIGH, N.C. State Employees’ CU said its SECU Foundation has made a $1-million grant to the Hospice House Foundation of Western North Carolina to help finance a new inpatient hospice facility.
The area’s first Hospice House will be located on a 2.74-acre site in Franklin, N.C. The inpatient facility will serve North Carolina’s far western counties of Macon, Swain, Graham, Clay, Cherokee and Jackson. Organizers said it will offer peaceful surroundings and the comforts of home to area patients and their families in need of end-of-life or respite care services.
The House will include six spacious private patient suites, residential style living areas and other amenities including a family kitchen, dining room, chapel and exterior gardens, organizers said.
In honor of SECU Foundation’s challenge grant to HHF’s Capital Campaign, the facility will be named SECU Hospice House of Western North Carolina.
The SECU Foundation also has helped finance hospice projects in five other North Carolina communities.
