Palliative care suites are coming to towns across the Northeast of Ontario.
The North East Local Health Integration Network has announced that they, alongside the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, are providing 17 new one-bedroom hospice suites in hospitals across the northeast.
The province is providing $105,000 of yearly funding per bed to each of the 17 hospitals, which includes Sensenbrenner Hospital in Kapuskasing and Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst.
NE LHIN CEO Jeremy Stevenson says they are committed to improving the quality of palliative end-of-life care across the Northeast.
Stevenson adds that hospice suites provide a vital health care service for people at a difficult time in their lives.
He adds that the new beds should provide an additional 250 patients with compassionate care that didn’t have the opportunity before.
A new one-bedroom hospice suite will be provided at these hospitals throughout the Northeast:
- Blind River
- Chapleau
- Cochrane
- Elliot Lake
- Espanola
- Hearst
- Hornepayne
- Iroquois Falls
- Kapuskasing
- Little Current
- Matheson
- Mattawa
- Mindemoya
- Smooth Rock Falls
- Sturgeon Falls
- Timiskaming Shores
- Wawa