The Hospice Foundation will be giving out $1.038 million to
local organizations in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz
counties. Locally, Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital will receive
$60,726 to fund the registered nurse program coordinator for
palliative care in inpatient, skilled nursing and residential care
settings to care for people at the end of life.
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The Hospice Foundation will be giving out $1.038 million to local organizations in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties. Locally, Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital will receive $60,726 to fund the registered nurse program coordinator for palliative care in inpatient, skilled nursing and residential care settings to care for people at the end of life.
“They’ve been with us since the beginning,” said Mary Dixon, the Palliative Care Program coordinator. “Actually, it’s only because of the Hospice Foundation that we have a Palliative Care Program at all. The Hospice Foundation gave us our first grant to start planning the program back in 2003.”
The Palliative Care program offers optimum pain and symptom management, psychological and spiritual care, and bereavement support. The program at Hazel Hawkins services about 60 people a year.
The Central Coast Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, which services Monterey and San Benito counties, will receive $171,420 for adult hospice care.
“We are very grateful for the generosity of the community which has helped make these grants possible,” said Alice Kinsler, the Hospice Foundation president and chief executive officer, in a press release. “The grants will help these organizations immeasurably and at a particularly challenging time in our economy.”
Since 1998, Hospice Foundation has awarded $16.6 million in grants locally to help create, develop and sustain a local network of organizations that provide emotional, bereavement, caregiving and hospice services for people at the end of life, and for their families.
Other agencies to receive grants included Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, John XXIII AIDS Services, Catholic Charities and others.
For more information on the Hospice Foundation, call 333-9023 or visit www.HospiceGiving.org.
