Rita Torres Layson

Hospice & Palliative Care, located in Greensboro, N.C., offers a wide range of services, such as assisted living, oncology, cardiovascular treatment and radiology services. The center has various health care centers, including cancer, home health care and rehabilitation centers. It provides long-term health care services that include nursing, counseling, inpatient care and outpatient surgery. The specialized services of the organization include psychiatric and trauma care, anesthesia, and children and family medical care services. It additionally provides outpatient, acute and short-term care services. The organization provides laboratory services that include mammography, X-ray, blood tests and imaging services. It provides 24-hour emergency health care and rehabilitation services to the people.

Cheshire Center, located in Greensboro, N.C., is a privately owned clinic. It provides community-based rehabilitation services, such as speech, physical and occupational therapies to the pediatric population. It offers various programs and speech and language pathology for adults and children, such as language literacy and auditory processing programs, and adult rehabilitation. Its speech and language pathologists offer various programs designed to help in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Its programs make use of computer technology and include Earobics and FastForWord. It addresses various areas of difficulty, such as phonetic awareness, auditory processing, working memory, word discrimination, listening and comprehension. It operates a voice clinic that provides preventive and clinical care for persons with speaking disorders. It offers comprehensive clinical evaluations and voice therapy that is provided and monitored by a voice team. Cheshire Center was opened in 1980.