We have been working with our clinical and nursing teams to launch an urgent Coronavirus Fighting Fund Appeal.
Today, in these challenging, worrying times Isabel Hospice is asking for your urgent help in supporting incredibly vulnerable local people, as well as those who love them and those who care for them.
The coronavirus crisis has hit every part of our national care system very hard – and it’s no different for the nursing and support teams here at the hospice. We’ve had to hugely adapt how we care for local people at the end of their lives.
Every member of our team is working incredibly hard over extended, often gruelling hours, to give everyone we see the expert, compassionate care they deserve.
We are asking for donations which can be used to:
- continue to offer end-of-life care to those who need it at the In-Patient Unit – for both patients with pre-existing conditions and those with COVID-19
- help to fund our Hospice at Home care team – there’s been an increase in those who need expert care in their own home
- help fund our special telephone helpline for care home staff facing an unprecedented situation in care homes across our communities
We are still caring for people with life-limiting conditions in our In-patient Unit. But we’ve also just opened six additional beds which may well be needed for those who have contracted COVID-19, but who, tragically, will likely not survive the disease.
It’s tough and distressing for everyone involved. Nursing a COVID-19 patient is challenging and exhausting – but we’re still determined to give everyone the dignity of a peaceful death.
Our In-Patient Unit is on the front line of care – but we are a charity, not part of the NHS, and we rely on the support of our community to pay for the costs of care. Your gift could help to pay a member of our nursing team.
Our Hospice at Home nursing team are continuing to offer that care – but they are also spending extra time training carers and loved ones to look after them too, in case they cannot be there when needed.
In recent days they have opened a special telephone helpline to support staff in care homes who are now forced to offer end-of-life care to their residents, with little experience or training.
Local life-limited patients, their families and the frontline Isabel Hospice staff who care for them – all urgently need your help.
