Pictured Left to Right: Mayor Bryan Paterson, Evelyn Maizen, Krista Wells Pearce, Sr. Francis O’Brien, Sr. Gayle Desarmia, Sr. Sandra Shannon, Sr. Diane Brennen, Michelle Podhy, Cathy Szabo, Laurie French. Second Row: Peter Kingston, Tom Zsolnay
On Tuesday, June 20, after a decade of planning, Providence Care and Hospice Kingston officials joined the Sisters of Providence of Saint Vincent de Paul Council, University Hospitals Kingston Foundation, donors, volunteers, board members and community members, to celebrate the kick off to construction on Kingston’s first hospice residence.
“Not only, will this be Kingston’s first hospice residence, it will also be the first development in Providence Village,” says Krista Wells Pearce, Vice President, Planning & Corporate Services and Executive Director of Hospice Kingston. “We are grateful our hospice residence will be a part of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Vincent de Paul’s legacy.”
Centrally located in Providence Village at 1200 Princess Street, the ten-suite hospice residence will provide 24-hour care and support services in a comfortable, home-like setting to clients, their families and loved ones at end of life.
When it opens mid-2024, this new care setting will complement the continuum of high quality, compassionate palliative care provided at Providence Care Hospital and the community hospice visiting and support programs, available through Hospice Kingston.
“We are incredibly grateful to our community for their support to our fundraising efforts to date,” says Campaign Cabinet Chair, Peter Kingston.
“We are approximately $500,000 shy of our capital campaign goal to build the residence. Once we hit that target, we need to shift our focus to raising operating funds given that the province only provides about 55% of hospice operational funding. Going forward we will need to raise approximately $1.6 million dollars each year to support operational costs for the residence,” Kingston adds.
The construction contract has been awarded to Kingston-based Emmons & Mitchell Construction Limited. If you would like to support Hospice Kingston, please contact University Hospitals Kingston Foundation at www.uhkf.ca or by phone at 613-549-5452.
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