Hospices

A Little Lifetime Foundation

A Little Lifetime Foundation formerly Isands (Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) is a support group for families bereaved by stillbirth or neonatal death.  

A Little Lifetime Foundation helps parents whose baby has died or is expected to die before or soon after birth.  

 

Anam Cara - Supporting Parents after Loss

Anam Cara is a national support group set up by bereaved parents.  Our aim is to provide support and understanding to families who have lost a son or daughter.
 
 
For each of us the death of our child has been a different experience.  For some it was expected.  For others it was sudden, through illness or accident.  It may have been a cot death or a still birth, suicide or substance abuse.  It may have been recent or decades ago, our may have been young or old.
 
 
What connects us all is the devastating sense of loss we experience.
 
 
Within each other we have found a level of support and understanding that others could not offer.

Bantry Hospice Project

The Bantry Hospice Project was formed with the intention of providing the capital expenditure necessary to put in place palliative care beds within the grounds of Bantry Hospital. The objective of the committee is that the units will consist of a large bedroom en-suite with a lounge/kitchen area for family members. The unit will add to the existing complement of beds within the Bantry Hospital facility and when the relevant beds are unoccupied for palliative care they can be used by the management of the hospital for other patients. This model of palliative care is already working very successfully in a number of other smaller hospitals in the Cork County. This project will have the full support of Marymount Hospice and they will provide every assistance where possible, including training and the use of the existing palliative care team already in place in West Cork.

 

Breast Cancer Research ( NBCRI ) National Breast Cancer Research Institute

The key objective of the NBCRI is to conduct relevant, ethical research into the biology of breast cancer to determine the cause of this disease and improve the treatment for patients. The NBCRI also works to raise awareness of breast cancer and fundraise to provide improved breast cancer services for women throughout Ireland.

Under the directorship of Professor Michael Kerin and his team, the research work of the NBCRI is now recognised internationally and we collaborate with a number of  research facilities throughout the world. The NBCRI team have recently made a world class research breakthrough and we hope that within a few years a simple blood test will be capable of detecting breast cancer. Your support will assist us to continue our valuable work and progress this exciting research.

Brú Columbanus

 Brú Columbanus is a facility that provides “home from home” accommodation for relatives of seriously ill patients in Cork Hospitals and Hospice.

 

Families first concern is the health of their loved one but consideration has also to be given to the practicalities of their time away from home.Where can they stay?How are they going to finance all this?These worries are removed for families who stay in Brú as we provide our service completely free of charge. We offer a warm welcome caring environment, where families can be together, relax and feel at home.  Brú Columbanus comprises 26 ensuite family rooms, and families who are all in similar situations– get real support and understanding from each other in a way that may be more difficult for family and friends at home to offer. The families who stay in Brú are people just like you and me who never expected to find themselves in such a terrible situation. 

We operate with the minimum possible of paid staff, helped by a number of dedicated volunteers. We have an excellent group of volunteers at present. Our volunteers give freely of their time and expertise and add to the calm, caring environment we provide to all in the house.

 

 

Children's Sunshine Home & LauraLynn House

The Children's Sunshine Home provides respite, home support, transitional, crisis and end-of-life care to children and their families with life-limiting conditions.  It’s not a sad place, it is a place for living.

While we cannot change a child's diagnosis, we can change the quality of a child's life and their families.

Building work has started on LauraLynn House - Ireland's First Children's Hospice, opening early 2011.

To find out more visit www.sunshinehome.ie.

"Making the most of short and precious lives"

Galway Hospice Foundation

The Galway Hospice Foundation is a voluntary organisation. It was established in 1986 when a group of local doctors and nurses came together with a view to developing hospice services for the people of Galway city and county, as no such services existed there at the time.

Initially the Foundation researched the need for this service among Health Care professionals and, having received a positive response, set about raising the funds for the provision of a Home Care Service initially, with the aim of following with Inpatient, Day Care and support services as resources allowed.

The Home Care Service was launched in January 1990 with an initial team of one doctor, one full-time and one part-time nurse. Since then the team has grown to two doctors, ten Clinical Nurse Specialists, Social Workers and Pastoral Care. The service is available 7 days per week, 365 days per year.

While the majority of patients cared for by the Galway Hospice team express the wish to remain at home, and with the support of the Home Care Service are able to do so, there are patients who, for a variety of reasons, may not. Some patients' symptoms may be difficult to control in the community, carers may need a period of respite, and sometimes patients may not have the support systems to allow them to remain in their own homes throughout their illness.

In order to answer the needs of those particular patients, the Galway Hospice Foundation, in 1992, set about raising the capital cost of a purpose built facility incorporating In-patient, Day Care and support services. The cost which was approx. €2.6 million (a very sizeable sum at that time) was raised totally through voluntary subscriptions from the community, business, farming and professional sectors of Galway city and county and also through individual donations from far and wide.

In 1997, funding from the Western Health Board (now HSE West) was received for the running costs of the Inpatient Unit, allowing the first patients to be admitted in December of that year. Patients are admitted for either symptom control, respite, psychological support, end of life care or a combination of these. The usual length of stay is approximately two weeks, though this is reviewed on an individual basis.

At the Hospice, the multidisciplinary team includes a Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Medical Officers, Clinical Nurse Managers, Staff Nurses, Auxiliary Nurses, Pastoral Care and Social Workers. Day Care opened in 1998, with patients coming from home to meet one another in a social rather than clinical environment, and to be clinically reviewed by the multidisciplinary team. Many enjoy availing of the services of hairdresser, massage therapist, physiotherapist, reflexologist and other therapists available within the Day Care Unit.

Get BACk Challenge

The BDO organized Get BACk Challenge is now in its fifth year of operation having starting in 2006.  An annual charity cycle and walk are the main fundraising drivers in addition to attracting corporate support from businesses throughout the region donations. The BDO Get BACk Challenge was initially developed to bring businesses and their associates together to raise funds in tackling cancer using a ‘top down’ (care) and ‘bottom up’ (prevention) approach.

The top down ‘care’ approach is designed to fund palliative home care programmes run by local hospices across the Mid West for those unfortunate to be affected by Cancer.  The bottom up ‘preventative’ approach is funded on adopting a proactive approach to living a healthy and active lifestyle particularly among young people and counteract the growing issue of obesity and its associated problems.  The idea is that encouraging activity among kids and a healthy lifestyle will reduce their risk of contracting life threatening illnesses later in life and that they will carry through a healthy focus with them in life.  The principal target groups are those living in the social disadvantaged areas of the region who are most affected by the problems of obesity through a combination of a lack of sport participation opportunities.

The bottom up approach works through our alliance with the Local Sports Partnerships under the auspices of the Irish Sports Council. They operate predominately in areas of social and sporting disadvantage.  The bottom up is based on three areas 1) Sports participation  2) Grants programme and 3) Coach education.   A recent audit of children’s participation in sports and activity as a direct result of funded programmes and grants highlighted that almost 7,000 children living in areas of social and sporting disadvantaged benefited.

Hospice Africa Ireland

Hospice Africa Ireland (HAI) is a support organisation for Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU). Core activities of Hospice Africa Ireland include fund-raising, co-ordination activities with HAU, awareness raising about the activities of HAU and advocacy for Palliative care access for those in developing countries using the HAU model of care. Hospice Africa Uganda provides palliative care services for people living with HIV/AIDS and/or Cancer and their families in Uganda.

Irish Hospice Foundation

The Irish Hospice Foundation supports the development of hospice care and promotes the hospice philosophy across Ireland. Our vision is that no one should have to face death without appropriate care and support. This includes support for families and loved ones, extending into bereavement.

Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association

Motor Neurone Disease is a progressive neurological condition affecting the central nervous system. It is an incurable disease that leaves people unable to do everyday things that rest of us take for granted, walking, talking and swallowing may become virtually impossible, yet the mind and senses remain intact.

The Mission statement of the Motor Neurone Disease Association is to encourage and promote the best methods of care, education, research and treatment for people living with Motor Neurone Disease throughout Ireland, contributing to worldwide efforts in research and development of treatment and to eventually live in a world free of MND. To establish and promote models of good practice in the delivery of specialised services to our clients, their families and carers, setting standards of excellence. To communicate widely knowledge of Motor Neurone Disease and related disorders, in order to raise awareness in the wider community.

The IMNDA is a small organisation relying heavily on fundraising in order to continue providing vital services to the MND community; such as financial assistance towards home help, specialised equipment on loan and home visiting by an MND Nurse Specialist.  Since its foundation 25 years ago, IMNDA has provided assistance to over 3,000 members, and has worked to promote a programme of integrated multidisciplinary care for the condition.

  As the association marks 25 years of care and research, it is the perfect time to take part in one special event and give to this worthy cause.  

Kerry Hospice Foundation Limited

Kerry Hospice Foundation provides funding for the care of terminally ill people in Kerry. This is delivered through our state of the art Palliative Day Care Facility, through beds in community hospitals and through our home care nurses.

WE ARE CURRENTLY FUNDRAISING TO CONSTRUCT A 12 TO 15 BED INPATIENT UNIT AT OUR EXISTING DAY CARE FACILITY

Marymount Hospice Cork

Marymount Hospice  Marymount Hospice is a Specialist Palliative Care Unit.  Based at St. Patrick’s Hospital, the hospice provides skilled medical, nursing and spiritual care for patients with serious and advanced illness and their families.  The hospice is staffed by a specialist team. In addition to a 24-bed in-patient unit, the hospice also offers care and support to those patients who choose to be cared for in their own homes. Working in close liaison with community based medical and nursing services, hospice based nurses will visit patients in their own home.  This service is designed to complement the skills and the resources of the patient’s own family doctor and other community based healthcare professionals.
Other services available at Marymount include a Hospice Day Unit and Outpatients Assessment Unit. The overall objectives of palliative care services is to ensure that patients are free from pain and other distressing symptoms, thus enabling them to live full, active and rewarding lives.
Marymount Hospice is very grateful for the ongoing support which it receives from the HSE voluntary groups and organisations and also to the people of Cork city and county who have supported the work of the hospice over the past 125 years.
The Sisters of Charity have cared for the people of Cork since 1870 and that tradition of dedicated and compassionate personal care is still very much in evidence today Hospice care is the total care of the patient and family at that stage of serious illness when the focus has shifted from treatment aimed at cure to ensuring quality of life. It seeks to relieve the physical symptoms of the illness while equally addressing the person’s emotional, social and spiritual needs. It seeks to treat the person rather than the illness and it is all about living life to the end.

Friends of St  Patrick’s Hospital/Marymount Hospice.

Affilliated to the Irish Hospice Foundation, the Friends of St. Patrick’s Hospital/Marymount Hospice are a voluntary group who raise funds to enhance the hospital and to benefit the patients.  They meet on the second Monday of each month.  Their major fundraising events are “Sunflower Days” and “Irelands Biggest Coffee Morning”.  They are currently fundraising to build a new hospice.

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation

The Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation is a voluntary charitable organisation which was set up in 1992 to provide a Palliative Care service for patients with life threatening illness in counties Mayo and Roscommon.

The Foundation’s Mission Statement

Mayo/Roscommon Hospice Foundation affirms life. Respecting the uniqueness of each individual, caring and supporting to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their families living with life threatening illnesses.

Milford Care Centre

Milford Care Centre established by the Little Company of Mary in 1928 provides a comprehensive range of Specialist Palliative Care Services through Hospice At Home, In-patient Unit and the Day Care Centre.  These services are provided throughout the Mid-West Region incorporating Counties Clare, Limerick and North Tipperary.

Our primary objective as set out in our Mission Statement is as follows:

"We in Milford Care Centre as a Little Company of Mary Health Care facility aim to provide the highest quality of care to patients or residents, family and friends, both in the areas of palliative care and services to the older person, as envisaged by Venerable Mary Potter"

In order to maintain services at levels capable of responding to the ever growing needs and operating to the highest standards of care, there continues to be a significant reliance on fundraising events which are vital to make up the shortfall necessary to sustain the provision of this high quality of care on offer at Milford Hospice.

 

Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services, Harold's Cross and Blackrock Hospice

Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross was founded in 1879 by the Religious Sisters of Charity as Ireland’s first Hospice facility and has since played a pivotal role in the development of hospice and palliative care in Ireland.  Palliative Care  aims to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of patients at the end of their lives and also supports their families both before and after the death of a loved one. Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services now provides three specialist services for patients in two locations, Harold’s Cross and Blackrock (Hospice): 

o         Palliative Care/end of life care

o         Gerontology/extended care, respite and rehabilitation for older people

o         Rheumatology/specialist rehabilitation and treatment 

Funded by the HSE, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services relies on fundraising, donations and legacies to maintain and develop the highest quality of service to those in our care.  Recent major capital programmes funded by donors included the Education and Research Centre and Anna Gaynor House, a 100 bedded residential unit (part funded by the HSE) and completed in August 2009.

Outreach Moldova (ORM)

OutReach Moldova (ORM) is an Irish Charity that has been working for 10 years with abandoned and orphaned children with special needs in the Republic of Moldova

Mission Statement:

Outreach Moldova is dedicated to providing basic human rights, medical care and social justice for children that have been abandoned or orphaned, children with special needs and children with terminal illnesses in the Republic of Moldova.

Goals:

The goal of ORM is to provide immediate and ongoing assistance where necessary, provide the necessary training and supervision required, assist in and develop long-term, self-sustaining programs that will have a positive and lasting impact in the lives of these needy children and their care givers. We also strive to provide for the communities working with these children

How do we achieve this goal?

We work the belief that each life matters. In partnership with the Moldovan people we hope to change the way people think about and define both “disability” and illness; We hope to break down and end the internalized shame among people with disabilities; and promote the belief in society that disability is a natural part of human diversity in which people living with disabilities can take pride.

Vision:

ORM’s vision is that each person who is physically, mentally or socially disadvantaged deserves to be given special treatment, education and appropriate care required by their particular condition regardless of circumstance.

Core Values:

  • Collaboration and Cooperation with those who share common goals
  • Organsiation and Openness to provide for those in need
  • Respect for human dignity
  • Enhance quality of life through appropriate care
  • Value the input of those who want to help and hear all voices
  • Assist wherever possible and advocate human rights
  • Learn from those around us
  • Understand that no one person can make a change, it takes an entire community
  • Enable those whom circumstance has managed to disable
  • Strive for sustainability

 

SERVE

SERVE is a development and volunteering organisation committed to tackling poverty in the developing world. We strive to do this by working in solidarity, service and partnership with marginalised and oppressed communities, empowering them to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice. SERVE focuses specifically on programmes and projects that help communities enhance the lives of children and young people and recognises that gender equality is pivotal to achieving justice, equality and sustainable development.

The first volunteer group went to the Philippines after 6 months of ideating and planning in 2003. This 12 member group were placed with the local partners for 6 weeks and were involved with building projects and other community work. Today, we have established local partners in Brazil, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, India, Thailand and the Philippines. SERVE is now not only involved with volunteering programmes but also designs and delivers development education workshops for schools, youth groups and different community groups. SERVE mainly works for enhancing the lives of youth and women and for positive outcomes for gender. We support the Millennium Development Goals and constantly innovate ways to raise funds for our partners in the developing world.

www.serve.ie

 

St. Francis Hospice

St. Francis Hospice provides a service of respite and palliative care to people in North Dublin in advanced stages of cancer, motor neurone disease and HIV/AIDS as well as support for their families and friends. There are no charges for services provided. The service is based on a Christian philosophy, which recognises the need to treat each person with dignity respect and compassion, irrespective of their cultural or religious background.

Susie Long Hospice Fund

The Susie Long Hospice Fund (SLHF) was set up in October 2007 to provide the highest possible quality of end-of-life care for patients and their families through the establishment of a 10-bed hospice close to Carlow/Kilkenny General Hospital. The Fund plans to meet this challenge through fundraising, increasing awareness of the need and benefits of local hospice care and by lobbying Government for support. You can support our work while having fun and keeping fit at the same time by taking part in any sponsored event on our behalf. Once you have informed us of your chosen event, you can create your own personalised sponsorship page here on this site so that all your family and friends can sponsor you online – no matter where they live! For a list of upcoming event please see http://www.susielonghospice.com

The Friends of St. Luke's Hospital

The Friends of St Luke’s Hospital was established in 1981 to raise much needed funded for St Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin 6. St Luke’s Hospital is Ireland’s main radiotherapy centre, treating cancer patients from all over the country. The Friends of St Luke’s relies entirely on voluntary contributions and fundraising events organised by our patients, families and friends. St Luke’s is regarded as more than a health care institution. It has set the standards in radiation oncology and is a world-class centre for the delivery of radiotherapy.

Waterford Hospice

Waterford Hospice Movement provides medical and nursing care for patients with life limiting illnesses, in their own homes and in nursing homes throughout Waterford City, County and South Kilkenny. We supply specialised equipment for pain control and comfort as well as psychological and social support for the patients and their families. Hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal process.

In 2010, there is no dedicated Hospice Unit in the South East of Ireland.  Waterford Hospice Movement intends to raise €2 Million which will go towards a dedicated 20-bed hospice facility.  The H.S.E. ‘Palliative Care Services - Five Year Development Framework’ lists the date for development of a 20 Bed In-Patient Unit at Waterford Regional Hospital as 2013.

It currently costs Waterford Hospice approximately €600,000 annually to provide its services. Most of this amount (62%) has to be raised through donations, local fundraising (Sunflower Day, Coffee Mornings, etc.) and funds raised on our behalf by our loyal supporters (individuals, groups, clubs etc.) The Health Service Executive (HSE) provides approximately 38% of the remaining funding required at present.

Wicklow Hospice

The Wicklow Palliative Care/Hospice Campaign is a non-profit organisation that was set up by the people of Wicklow, for the people of Wicklow, to promote and campaign for the right of every person to choose and decide where they wish to spend their last days.

Our Vision: To have a full seven day palliative care service and a purpose built level three Hospice in County Wicklow.