After 14 years, Hospice Greater Moncton is one step closer to their goal of a residential building thanks to $1,082,264 of provincial funding.
Executive Director Tradina Meadows-Forgeron says the money will be used solely for funding the clinical care team over two years – with an option to renew the contract after that.
“Our clients will be able to have their own room, the families will have a room as well,” says Meadows-Forgeron. “So with this ten bed facility, they’ll have their own cafeteria, they’ll have their own rooms, there’ll be an area where there’s a park, they’re not going to be in a hospital where there’s four people to a room.”
The clinical care team will include an on-site licensed practical nburse, and personal support workers who will, in turn, be supported by the Extra-Mural Program interdisciplinary team.
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Meadows-Forgeron says they estimate construction and equipment costs could run them more than $4.5 million – and they are going to be launching a capital campaign, and several fundraisers in the near future.
The plan is to start construction in spring 2019, with the expectation being they will be open and ready to go by fall that same year.
More to come…
