Hospice House Proposed for Whatcom County
Whatcom
Hospice consistently serves more than 100 patients every day in Whatcom
County. Hospice professionals
work
with both patients and their loved ones to create individualized plans of
care which enable patients to live the final
days
of their lives comfortably and pain free, with dignity, purpose and peace.
Currently,
however, hospice services can only be offered to a patient in his or her
home, a hospital or long-term care center. For a variety of reasons, these options are not always the most desirable
or appropriate for either the patient
or
caregiver. (For examples of actual recent situations requiring a hospice
facility, please refer to our
story entitled, Younger Patients Often Need a
Hospice House.)
Download
a .PDF of the Facility Drawing
It
is time another option become available: a Hospice House.
The
Board of Directors of the Whatcom Hospice Foundation – all non-paid
volunteers – is currently gearing up for a capital campaign
to fund construction of a Hospice House. The campaign goal will be to
raise approximately $5.3 million, which
will
cover the costs of property acquisition, design and construction, and
create a $1 million endowment to ensure that
Hospice
House remains fiscally sound as it opens its doors to anyone in need of
end-of-life care.
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