January 18, 2024 (Albemarle, NC) – Tillery Compassionate Care is delighted to announce its new membership with the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Comprising over 100 not-for-profit, community-integrated hospice and palliative care providers, NPHI is deeply committed to ensuring that patients and their families have access to the highest quality care during life’s final stages. The inclusion of Tillery Compassionate Care in this dynamic and innovative community of hospice and palliative care organizations is a source of immense pride.

Tillery Compassionate Care is excited to join the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation!” said Lori Thayer, CEO.  “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with members across the country and be a voice in an organization that is dedicated to advocating for non-profit care programs nationwide. ”NPHI’s core belief is that  end-of-life care should be tailored to reflect each patient’s unique goals, values, and preferences. As an essential part of this collective effort, members from across the nation collectively define the gold standard for hospice care and provide invaluable guidance to patients and their families during life’s final stages.

By becoming part of NPHI, Tillery Compassionate Care embraces a commitment to person-centered advanced illness care—enabling individuals to concentrate on their own comfort in their final moments of life. NPHI’s pillars of organizational excellence, strategic engagement, and data collection, along with quality initiatives, empower its members to cultivate vital relationships, exchange best practices, and enlighten national thought leaders and decision-makers about the value of enhancing hospice care delivery.

Driven by the needs of patients and their families, rather than profit motives, NPHI’s members actively seek to revolutionize how both individuals and institutions perceive end-of-life care. They strive to help individuals live as well as possible until they reach the end of life’s journey.

Tillery Compassionate Care looks forward to working closely with NPHI and advocating together will all its members for high-quality, community-based, not-for-profit hospice, palliative, advanced illness care to patients throughout the nation.

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Tillery Compassionate Care, a nonprofit organization, was founded through the grassroots efforts of people in the community and it continues to be governed locally by a board of directors.  Through the generosity of many, Tillery Compassionate Care has been able to provide care to more than 7,500 seriously ill residents since 1981.  The organization provides compassionate care, comfort, and support for patients and their families.  More information about hospice and palliative care is available by calling 704.983.4216 or by visiting  tillerycompassionatecare.org.

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) is a membership organization comprising 100+ not-for-profit, community-integrated hospice, and palliative care providers dedicated to ensuring patients and their families have access to care that reflects their individual goals, values, and preferences. Representing providers from 37 states and the District of Columbia, NPHI and its members help design more innovative and effective models of care, advocate for comprehensive and community-integrated care customized to meet each person’s unique needs, and build collaboration between national thought leaders, decision-makers, and other healthcare stakeholders to improve hospice care. Learn more at hospiceinnovations.org.