The Compassionate Care Hospice Society (CCHS) is hoping to get a second suite and an increase in funding.
Jessica Bozman and Steven Taylor from the CCHS made the request before town council at their meeting Nov. 1.
The mission of the CCHS is to provide hospice care within the community, in a home or home-like setting, to all individuals and their loved ones; fulfilled by fully-trained professionals and volunteers with respect, dignity, empathy, and compassion to meet physical, spiritual and emotional needs through the end of life and bereavement journey.
Bozman and Taylor say the CCHS plan is to expand to a second hospice suite within the Good Samaritan Society and Clearwater County.
The CCHS plans to expand by solidifying municipal funding to cover hospice operations, staff wages and administrative costs by navigating through the same model they used for their first hospice suite project and by continuing with their tri-partnership contacts with Alberta Health Services and the Good Samaritan Society.
The Compassionate Care Hospice Society presently covers all core operating costs each year through fundraising, donations, grants, and $40,000 in annual municipal funding for wages split between the Town of RMH & Clearwater County.
CCHS officials say with the proposed budget, it is their hope that annual municipal funding could be increased to $170,000. This would then cover all operating costs for two hospice suites, office administrative costs, and employee wages, add CCHS officials.
The $170,000 would be split between the Town of Rocky Mountain House and Clearwater County.
Mayor Debbie Baich made a motion during the council meeting to bring the CCHS request to budget talks and to accept the presentation as information.
The motion was unanimously approved by council to be brought up at budget talks.
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