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Healthy Beginnings Committee
HEALTHY BEGINNINGS COMMITTEE (HBC)
CENTENNIAL PROJECT – NEONATAL ROOM, CHILDREN’S PALLIATIVE & RESPITE CENTRE
The Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care is expanding its current community hospice programs by building a ten-bed home offering compassionate and comprehensive paediatric palliative care services to children and their families. The new home will be the Children’s Palliative and Respite Centre to be located in the historic Governor’s House on Gerrard Street.
The Healthy Beginnings Committee is
supporting the development of the Neonatal Room. The Centre will be the
very first Residential Children’s Hospice in Toronto, and the sixth in
Canada.
The Centre will provide
children with life-limiting illness with end-of-life care. Currently,
there are no dedicated beds for children living with life-limiting
illness who require end of life care. Health care professionals and
doctors at the Sick Kids Hospital and other hospices have said that
children would be better served in a specialised palliative care
environment, and support the premise that a children’s hospice should be
completely separate from an adult hospice.
Our $100K project covers the outfitting of the Neonatal Room, including medical equipment, bathroom construction, bedroom and miscellaneous furnishings.