What
the Peace Hospice provides:-
The
Peace Hospice in Watford, Herts, UK is a centre mainly for cancer patients. It
began life in a temporary building for some 3 years, but it's permanent home
is the old Peace Memorial Hospital, built at the end of the First World War.
After being completely gutted and refurbished, it was officially opened as a
hospice in September 1996 by HRH Princess Michael of Kent, who returned to officially
open the new in-patient unit on 12 September 2001.
'The Peace' is now
a centre for hospice care for the whole of South West Hertfordshire and is
providing day care for up to fifteen people at a time, plus up to eleven in-patients.
It also has contact with five Macmillan community nurses who look after over
two hundred families. Through our social work programme we care for a further
one hundred families and also provide a cancer support group and a bereavement
counselling service..New
services are also being developed to provide cancer care for patients in their
own home.
- skilled medical
and nursing care
- help to relieve
pain and control symptoms
- physiotherapy and
complementary therapies such as aromatherapy and massage
- the opportunity
for one-to-one attention and for mutual support
- a team of dedicated
volunteers who provide who provide a range of services
- counselling and
a bereavement service to relieve emotional and spiritual distress
- home visits from
Macmillan community nurses and a qualified social worker
In May, 2001, the builders
handed over the completed In-patient Unit of the Peace Hospice, Watford, and
our first in-patients were received in early June. It was the culmination
of the hopes and dreams of hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters who had
worked to make this possible.
