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A Hospice Care Center for Our Community

At a Glance

Why:  To meet the community’s growing residential hospice care needs.
What:  20 bed hospice care center with private suites for family accommodations and 24-hour onsite trained hospice staff.
Where:  Near West Nob Hill Blvd and 48th Avenue in Yakima.
When:  With successful fund raising, groundbreaking in Spring 2009, planned opening in 2010.
Who:  Will serve hospice patients from throughout Yakima County. It will be operated by Memorial Hospice.

Why is a Hospice Care Center Needed?

• Yakima County is the largest area within Washington state without a residential hospice facility.
  
• Yakima County’s three hospice agencies have seen consistent growth in the number of patients served over the past eight years.
  
• To provide respite care for caregivers, allowing them a needed break while the patient is cared for in the Hospice center.
  
• Memorial provided over 24,000 days of hospice care were provided to 461 patients in 2007.
  
• 13% of  Memorial’s hospice patients ended their life in a hospital because a care center was not available.

Yakima’s Hospice Care Center Will Provide:

• A homelike setting with comfortable patient and community areas.
  
• Specially trained nurses, social workers, pharmacists, chaplains, and personal care aides to assist patients and their families in receiving holistic end-of-life care.
  
• Community volunteers trained to assist patients and their families.
  
• Counseling including spiritual, nutritional and bereavement.
  
• Easy access for loved ones to visit.

Open the Door

For information on how you can help, call 509-575-8381
or The Memorial Foundation at 509-575-5794 or visit
http://memfound.org/hospice.php.