Haywood Hospice & Palliative Care

10/21/2025

Our Hospice Volunteer Lunch and Learn this week included an amazing program by Dementia Friendly WNC. Great insight and instruction from RN Kitty Hancock on how to communicate with dementia patients. Alzeimer’s patient Denise Baker talked about what it’s like to live with dementia.
Thanks to this great group AND to our amazing hospice volunteers! We appreciate you!💜

10/21/2025

TEN DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER! We'd love to share this special time with you. Jess Kaufman is a renowned craft instructor who has taught all over the US. This is are opportunity to learn from her free of charge thanks to the Haywood Health Foundation. Lunch provided. Register today at heartfelthaywood.org/events. You'll find the event description on our calendar (November 1st). Can you join us? What's your favorite Canton restaurant?

10/17/2025

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10/17/2025

We may be a day late, but we want to acknowledge and celebrate our Executive Director Hetu Suthar (pictured here with our Patient Care Manager Stephanie Kirton) and wish him a Happy Boss's Day/Week! He is the calming force behind our team, and he is always there to listen, instruct, and inspire all of us! We are so grateful for you and your leadership Hetu! Thanks for all that you do for your team and your patients! 💙

10/17/2025

We are collecting warm clothing (new and gently used) for our local Veterans. In partnership with the Waynesville America Legion Post 47, we will be collecting items through the end of October at our office. You may also drop off items at the Legion office as well. For more info, call us at 452-5039!

10/10/2025

We are grateful for the generosity of the Great Smokies Health Foundation and our partnership with Heartfelt Haywood to help bring Grief gatherings and Advance Directives programs to Jackson County! Haywood Hospice is proud to now provide comfort care to residents of Sylva and Dillsboro communities! We will be announcing dates for these new programs soon! ❤️

On stage: Peter Constantian, Executive Director of Heartfelt Haywood and Delisa Ensley, Account Executive of Haywood Hospice accept a grant from Great Smokies Health Foundation.

Hospice work is about caring for people. As a hospice chaplain and bereavement coordinator, I cherished the opportunity to work with the grieving families of our patients. I've seen so much transformation and healing in two short years. Isn't transformation and healing something the world needs a little more of right now? What grief are you carrying? What transformation or healing does your heart need?

Monday, September 29th was a milestone for our little nonprofit. Heartfelt Haywood (our legal name is Haywood End-of-life Coalition d.b.a. Heartfelt Haywood) was overjoyed to be awarded this $10,000 grant from the Great Smokies Health Foundation!

This grant funding will build on our partnership with Haywood Hospice & Palliative Care to bring Grief Gatherings to Jackson County and offer programming around the Five Wishes. If you've been to our Grief Gathering at the Coffee Cup Café or come to one of Delisa's presentations, please share this with your community and tell us what you loved about it. Our Jackson County neighbors may want to know!

The Jackson Grief Gathering will meet monthly beginning in November at the Jackson County Senior Center. Date and time TBD. We're all grieving something some of the time. If you live in Jackson county, what date and time would work best for you to attend?

We're so grateful for our new partners Great Smokies Health Foundation and the Jackson County Senior Center. Learn more at heartfelthaywood.com.

10/09/2025

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10/08/2025

What does nature and the changing seasons teach us about grief? Join us today at 3:30 p.m. at the Coffee Cup Cafe for our monthly Grief Gathering as we discuss grieving through the seasons.

10/08/2025

Check out this Hospice Aide CNA opportunity in Waynesville, North Carolina at LHC Group!

10/07/2025

Today we are hosting a Vet to Vet Cafe at the American Legion Post 47 at 4:30 p.m! Free pizza and a safe and comfortable space for veterans to socialize, share stories of their military service, and connect with other veterans in a supportive environment. Call 452-5039 for more information!