Top Rated Hospice in Myrtle Beach & Horry County, SC

Serving Murrells Inlet, Surfside, Garden Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway & Longs

Did you know anyone can refer a patient for hospice care? Family, friends and neighbors, or even the patient themselves can make a referral for hospice care (Using the form below, you can request more information about care). With so many choices, we’ve made it easy to:

Find a list of locations for hospice in Horry County.
Decide which hospice offers the best options and care. The table below outlines 6 important factors to consider.
Determine which hospice provider is right for you and your loved ones.

Start with this list of hospice providers in Horry County.

We’ve provided a summary of hospice providers in Horry County, ranked by key factors that caregivers and families use to find the best hospice organizations.

	Lower Cape Fear LifeCare	National Average
Communication with family	84%	81%
Treating patient with respect	92%	90%
Rating of this hospice	81%	81%
Willing to recommend this hospice	86%	84%

How Do I Use These Factors to Determine Which Hospice Provider is Right for Me and My Family?

Our Nonprofit Status Means Better Care, Regardless of Your Ability to Pay
- Nonprofit hospices provide patients with 10% more nursing visits, 35% more social worker visits, and two times more therapy visits than for-profits per patient day.¹
- Nonprofit hospices enroll a higher percentage of patients who have inpatient hospital stays immediately prior to admissions, suggesting that nonprofits admit higher numbers of patients with greater care needs.
- For-profit hospices report spending 300% more on advertising costs than nonprofits.
- For-profit hospices report spending less than half compared to nonprofit hospices on bereavement services.
Your Hometown Hospice: Local with 40+ Years of Community Involvement
In 2014, Lower Cape Fear LifeCare and Mercy Hospice merged.

Mercy Care Hospice was organized by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, and was headed by Sister Connie Fahey and Dr. Charles Sasser forty years ago. Dr. Sasser, already interested in hospice, had travelled to England to learn from Dame Cicely Saunders, the modern-day founder of hospice.

Mercy Care Hospice was the first hospice to open in the Horry County region in 1980. It started as a nonprofit hospice to ensure care was available to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.

Like Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, Mercy Care understood that children affected by the loss of someone special in their lives processed grief differently than adults. Both adopted a specific program to provide counseling to children.
"We Honor Veterans" Program
We are a Level 5 Partner through the We Honor Veterans program.

What does this mean?

It means we have gone above and beyond for those who have sacrificed and given so much for our country and achieved the highest rank in the program.

It also means we’ve had to meet a stringent set of criteria to earn this recognition. We are constantly looking for better ways in which we can serve veterans. In fact, when our admission teams meet with veterans, we complete a military history checklist. This will help us determine what services would provide the greatest benefits.

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¹ – Study commissioned by National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation conducted by Milliman, a global actuarial and consulting firm: https://www.hospiceinnovations.org/advocacy-strategic-initiatives/milliman-study/
² – Journal for the American Medical Association, April 2014, National Hospice Survey Results For-Profit Status, Community Engagement, and Service: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1832198

International Journal or Health Care Finance and Economics. Differences between non-profit and for-profit hospices: patient selection and quality. 2012 Jun: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22527254/.

hospice in horry county service map murrells inlet, garden city, surfside beach, north myrtle beach, conway and longs, sc

“Each person in our hospice team acted professionally and courteously. They were informative and lovingly cared for my sister. They were concerned about my emotional state and supported my religious beliefs. I’m so glad Lower Cape Fear LifeCare (formerly Mercy Care) was involved. Thank you so much!”

Sister of Patient

Quality Counts

Lower Cape Fear LifeCare (formerly Mercy Care) ranked 93 percent in the category of “willing to recommend this hospice,” as rated by caregivers on a hospice quality survey. The national average is 84 percent.

Don’t Wait

Only 10% of our patients take advantage of the full Medicare hospice benefit which includes ALL medical care, medications, equipment and visits related to diagnosis.

To find out if you or someone you love qualifies for hospice, call 800.207.6908.

Hospice Care in Horry County

Your Care. Your Choice. Choose Lower Cape Fear LifeCare for Hospice in Horry County, South Carolina

Serving Murrells Inlet, Surfside, Garden Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway & Longs

Start with this list of hospice providers in Horry County.

How Do I Use These Factors to Determine Which Hospice Provider is Right for Me and My Family?

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