A nonprofit organization in Western North Carolina providing hospice care and palliative care now has a new mobile unit, helping bring care to more people in need.
Four Seasons announced their new mobile care unit in a press release on July 18, saying it would help enhance training for staff throughout the mountains and allow the organization to provide palliative care to more rural patients.
Chief Clinical Operations Officer Rikki Hooper shared the following message about the new unit:
Community based palliative care (CBPC) has been shown to not only improve patient health outcomes, but increase patient satisfaction, decrease healthcare costs, and increase access to hospice through care provided by Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers and Social Workers. However, the ability for people residing in rural areas remains limited to take advantage of these services. In WNC, increased demand for CBPC services has led to Four Seasons’ CBPC team caring for over 700 patients in these counties. With needs continuing to rise, we anticipate being able to use the mobile care clinic to see many patients per day in a single site.
Four Seasons also says the mobile unit will provide access at sites convenient to patients in remote areas, reducing travel distances for those patients to go to a clinic, or for clinicians to go to them.
The mobile unit will also have a mannequin and educational technology, creating a flexible space for training new staff and conducting other certifications.
Four Seasons says funding for this mobile care unit has been made possible by the generosity of the James H. Cummings Foundation, The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation, and Victoria and Dennis Flanagan.
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