Hospice House Opening in Mid September

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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.

It is time another option became available: a Hospice House. The Board of Directors of the Whatcom Hospice Foundation – all non-paid volunteers – is currently engaged in a capital campaign to fund construction of a Hospice House.

Hospice House will be located at 2806 Douglas Avenue in Bellingham and will be staffed by Whatcom Hospice, a department of St. Joseph’s Hospital. Ground breaking occured on September 13, 2009. The House is nearly complete, and is sceduled to accept its first patients in mid-September, 2010.

Total cost of the project is estimated to be $5.9 million. Additional funding for the Hospice House will be raised through other individual and corporate contributions, grants and in-kind services.