Donate to Transitions LifeCare

This program allows Transitions LifeCare to extend all of our services to adults and seniors not eligible for Medicare/Medicaid, not covered by private insurance, and without other means of paying for services. Our program covers the cost of physician and nursing care, prescriptions, medical supplies, counseling, and more for those without financial means.

This program supports Transitions GriefCare, which offers individual counseling and support groups for those who have experienced the death of a loved one and helps us serve grieving families, adults, and children. Grief counseling is offered at no cost to families served by Transitions LifeCare as well as any member of the community.

Transitions Kids is the region’s only community-based pediatric hospice and palliative care program, providing compassionate care and support to children with life-limiting or terminal illnesses and their families. The program’s interdisciplinary team works closely with families to honor their values and goals while addressing the complex challenges of serious childhood illness. Families are never charged for services. Although insurance is billed when applicable, generous philanthropic support ensures that every child can receive care regardless of financial circumstances.

Transitions LifeCare offers the only inpatient hospice facility in Wake County. Built in 2010, the William M. Dunlap Center for Caring is due for upgrades to key systems and enhancements that will bring greater patient and family comfort. The Healing Spaces Renewal Project will refresh and renew the environment at the heart of our mission. Project priorities include replacing aging HVAC systems and replacing hospital beds in the hospice home, refreshing our Administration Building’s meeting and event spaces, creating an accessible playground for kids, and installing additional campus security systems. 

We provide inpatient hospice beds at our William M. Center for Caring at reduced daily rate for patients who do not qualify for intensive inpatient care, covering room, board, and 24/7 skilled nursing during their final weeks of life. The true cost of this care is often more than twice this rate, and philanthropic gifts help bridge the gap. Your gifts to this program directly relieve families of a heavy financial burden, ensuring they can focus on their loved one. No one should worry about the cost of care at the end of life, and we are committed to reducing that burden for every patient we serve. 

Planned giving, also known as gift planning or deferred giving, refers to charitable gifts that require some advanced planning before they are made. Some examples include philanthropic gifts through your will (a bequest), retirement assets, or life insurance. Others include gifts of appreciated stocks and securities, real estate and personal property, trusts, and pooled income funds.

A planned gift is a very simple way to support Transitions LifeCare. A variety of giving strategies can be leveraged to accommodate your specific needs and circumstances while building a personal legacy that will benefit our patients and families now and for generations to come.

Though we cannot provide legal and tax advice, we are available to work with you and your financial and legal advisors to establish planned gift arrangements that accomplish your personal and charitable objectives and maximize your legacy.

Click here to contact us and learn more.

Buy a Brick
Our Raleigh campus includes two special walkways for those who want to honor their loved ones with an engraved brick. The Veterans Garden honors veterans from all military branches. The Colonnade and Memory Garden near our sanctuary includes a winding walkway featuring a fountain.

Print the Veterans Garden Brick Order Form or Memory Garden Brick Order Form to mail or bring in.

Please email bricks@transitionslifecare.org with any questions or concerns.

The Endowment Fund provides an important measure of financial stability for Transitions LifeCare by creating a predictable and steady source of income for generations to come. This income stream can be used to underwrite the cost of current programs, as well as respond to future needs arising from growth in demand for hospice care and expansion of our service area. Please email or call 919-828-0890 to learn more.

For more information on types of donations, please contact us.

• Birdseed Donations: Help us to keep our feeders full!

Transitions LifeCare relies on our volunteers and donors in partnership with Wild Birds Unlimited in Cary to keep our more than 20 bird feeders full of seed for our feathered companions. We need your help! Your financial contribution allows us to purchase seed upon demand (we cannot accept bags of birdseed).  Simply navigate back to the Donate Now page and complete the form provided.  Make sure to type in “Bird Feeder Fund” in the gift instructions comment box and select “Hospice Home Patient Fund” under “designation.” To volunteer to fill the bird feeders on campus, please e-mail the Volunteer Services department here.

While we appreciate your thoughtfulness in wanting to donate items such as medical equipment (power scooters, walkers, hospital beds, etc.), clothes, pets, patient care supplies (left over tube feedings, incontinence supplies, etc.), or bedding, we are not able to accept such. Please contact a resource center in your area about these types of donations.