Save Home Health and Hospice

Henry, Thank you for your kind word and commitment! This potential sale has deeply concerned so many of us. Please join us at the public hearing tomorrow if you are able!

This is a matter that concerns me greatly as my Mother was well cared for in such a facility and without it a treat burden would have been placed on Family members. I will personally offer a grant of twenty five thousand dollars per year for the next five years If that can be helpful in any way. Henrys restaurant family cares deeply about all our Dare County residents in need. Thank you

Lets work together to keep this service a float - we cannot do with out these services that are life changing when it counts

Allowing a for profit organization to take over the services provided by Dare County Home Health and Hospice will compromise the quality of care they provide.

The primary industry of the Outer Banks is its tourism. Dare County’s economy thrives because of it. Forbes Magazine has listed the Outer Banks as the number one summer destination in the United States. Job opportunities are plentiful here. Restaurants, hotels and retail establishments welcome tourists with open arms. Working in these establishments requires long hours standing on your feet, essentially wearing the body down over time. Now the County would like to take away Dare Home Health & Hospice from the people who need it the most, the working poor. THEY are the lifeblood of this industry and they will suffer the most if Home Health & Hospice is privatized. Is this the way we that we want to thank the brave men and women of this community who have spent their lives serving us? Respectfully, Anjelica Ruth Lewis

They ( home health care angel, Dianne) took wonderful, loving care of my mother, Veronica for years while she was entering and in the midst of her early Alzheimers until I moved here permanently. Is it broken? Fix it! If not, leave this service alone.

Please protect these essential services for the locals and residents who serve Dare County. These services may not be profitable but are necessary.

Found outside firms, etc not good idea cost more in the end

I feel the quality of patient care will be compromised with selling our local home health agency

I have used dchh&h services for my husband in 2018 and couldn't be more satisfied for the care and concern my family and I experienced. The nurse and aides were kind and caring to my husband and always were here when expected. Keep DCHH&H. We don't need our dollars going to another part of the country!

I have personally experienced home hospice 3 times and it is an amazing service. Please keep this agency on the OBX.

Save the help they give the family and patients their self. We need more than we have!

Without Dare Health an Hospice and the health care that they provide My parents, Goldens, while it is never easy, made the passing like I was surround by family. The Hospice family was my family and still is. It is something that the Dare County Commissioners should be proud of. Keep it Local s it Gets!!!!!!

We value and appreciate the care and services our family has received from Dare Co HH&H. Keep HH&H local.

There is no price tag that one can put on quality hospice care for a family facing the end of life of a loved one. Our community wants to support those in need. I am against turning hospice care over to "for profit" company. Let's accept the burdens and keep this in the Dare County family.

I agree with all that is said with respect to putting money back into the local economy that benefits our residences. Put beach norishment and tourist attractions on the back burner and let's work together to improve the quality of life here and our surrounding counties.

The OBX has been pretty successful avoiding the financial 'great divide' we see in the rest of the country. Home really is where the heart is; we should keep the Home Health and Hospice agency under county control.

Local support services such as Home Health and Hospice Services may be needed by any of us. It is a service more beneficial to the county than Mako Mike's.

Sounds like someone needs to listen to the employees to see what problems need to be fixed, rather than farming it out to a for profit company.

Have we not learned anything about the pain of dying from Covid with no family members to touch, kiss, share last wishes, cry together even laugh together? If someone is not home as they pass, it may as well be a gazillion miles away. Two miles or 3,000 miles, we may not be there for them 24/7. Add to that, we may not have the ability, expertise, strength or medical resources to make our loved one's passage to the hereafter peaceful and gentle. Sometimes we cannot be there, but we need to know, if it's at all possible, to allow our loved one to live at home and have caring neighbors and nurses and aides to keep him/her comfortable. Please don't break what's not broken. Dare County has an exemplary program. Yes, it requires funding and donations, but it works. It seems it appears we pay more attention to noise control than humanity control. Please tell me I'm wrong. Dana Falardeau