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Our Services

We provide compassionate, quality home infusion care using a multidisciplinary approach, and the most effective and efficient utilization of resources to achieve the best patient outcomes. Home Infusion Therapy provides IV therapy and nutrition, such as chemotherapy, pain management and antibiotic therapy in the patient's home.
 
We provide certified home health services for adult and pediatric patients needing nursing, rehabilitation (physical, occupational and/or speech language pathology therapies) and home health aides. When medically necessary, our services help patients adapt and recover from illness or injury in the comfort of their home.
 
We care for patients who are seeking palliative end of life care. We provide care designed to manage symptoms and provide emotional and spiritual support. Care can be provided in the home, at an assisted living facility or in nursing homes. We also provide care in our inpatient care facilities, Duke Hospice at the Meadowlands in Hillsborough and Hock Family Pavilion in Durham.
 
Bereavement care is provided to primary caregivers/family members of Hospice patients for up to 13 months following the death of a loved one. We also offer bereavement services to anyone in our community who has suffered a loss due to death or who requires critical incident debriefing.
 
Mission Statement:
Duke HomeCare & Hospice will provide innovative, thoughtful care, using an interdisciplinary team approach, to achieve the best possible outcomes for the patients, families and communities we serve.
 
 
Duke HomeCare & Hospice does not deny benefits to any person on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation or preference, gender, religion, national origin, ability to pay or conditions of reimbursement, or on the basis of diagnosis, handicap or age.
 
 
 
Duke HomeCare & Hospice
4321 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101
Durham, NC 27704
(919) 620-3853
(800) 599-9339
Volunteer Services

Volunteer Services...A Special Kind of Caring

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Are Our Volunteers?

  • Volunteers are people with big hearts, willing to give of themselves
  • Volunteers are people of all ages and backgrounds who desire to help others
  • Volunteers share their time and bring their own individual interests, skills, talents and experience to our program

What opportunities are available for volunteering?

There are a variety of ways for volunteers to assist our patients and their families including but not limited to:
  • Hospice (in-home) patient/family support
  • Duke Hospice at the Meadowlands Inpatient Facility
  • Hock Family Pavilion
  • Fund-raising and special events
  • Camp ReLEAF
  • Administrative and office support
 
“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”
-William John Bennett
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