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A big donation has helped kick off a campaign to build a hospice in Saskatoon.
The St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation launched its Close to Home fundraising drive Wednesday.
The campaign got a major push towards its $20 million goal with a $6 million gift from an anonymous donor. The money will be used to purchase the Glengarda Residence at 301 Hilliard Street and convert it into a 15-bed facility dedicated to providing end-of-life care.
St. Paul’s Hospital CEO Jean Morrison said Saskatoon has needed a hospice ever since she was a nursing student.
“Thirty years later, we’re getting that hospice to meet that need that we couldn’t meet in an approproate setting in the past,” she said.
Gord Engel, 46, said he hopes the new hospice will be complete when the time comes for him to use its services following a diagnosis of terminal colon cancer.
“Whenever you go to the hospital and visit with someone, what’s the one thing they always want to say? ‘I just want to go home.’ But some people can’t afford that. they have to be in a hospital being taken care of.”
Construction is expected to begin this summer, with an opening date expected sometime in 2020.
Including Wednesday’s anonymous donation, the Close to Home campaign has raised $14.5 million to date.
—With files from 650 CKOM’s Keenan Sorokan