Editor:
Re: Hospice beds boosted, March 28.
You may have heard an announcement for $3 million in hospice funding for White Rock.
The provincial grant is going directly to the Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation for a hospice residence.
Having both a hospice residence and supportive-care centre has been the goal of the White Rock South Surrey Hospice Society for decades. None of the $3 million has been allocated for the society’s supportive-care centre.
Now, with this new information, our society will require generous support to build this much-needed centre, which would provide the necessary emotional, practical and spiritual support for those who are dying and for their families and friends who are grieving their loss.
As community members, we support Fraser Health and the new Peace Arch Hospice by providing them with more than 150 trained volunteers giving more than 6,000 hours of care each year.
Hospice is about living. You can take comfort in knowing that we will be there when you need us.
Robin Harper, White Rock South Surrey Hospice Society president