COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
HRC Partners with Local Rescue Squads
In 2023, HRC began a unique partnership with local rescue squads to better meet patient transport needs. With our local EMS services feeling the effects of staffing issues, scarcity of non-emergency transport meant hospice patients being discharged from a hospital often had to wait long hours (sometimes more than 12 hours) before arriving home or to Gibson House. HRC now partners with Madison-Rockingham and Eden Rescue Squads to transport patients from hospitals to home and from home to Gibson House. This new partnership has reduced patients’ waiting time to only one to two hours, resulting in greater patient comfort.
Local Community Colleges & Universities
Hospice of Rockingham County has the privilege of serving as an educational resource for local healthcare programs. Nursing students from Rockingham Community College and UNC-G have gained clinical hours through rotations in Gibson House and in our homecare division in the past year. More recently, we have had opportunities to host students in the respiratory therapy program at RCC and hope to partner with other healthcare programs future. In addition to clinical programs, for several years HRC has hosted interns from A&T State University and UNC-G’s joint Master of Social Work programs. Spending a year with HRC’s support services team and having their own caseload gives interns great experience and insight into medical social work.
Two of HRC’s social workers spent time as interns and transitioned to full-time employees immediately after finishing their degrees.
Local Chamber of Commerce Connections Hospice of Rockingham County has always held membership in all three local chambers of commerce. It is important to be part of the business community that has been so supportive of our mission for decades. This past year we were proud to not only continue our memberships, but to take things a step farther and participate on a sponsorship level with all three chambers.
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