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A computer rendering of the outside of Jessica's House, a three -bed hospice that is expected to break ground
in March 2017.
Jessica's House wins $100,000,
releases designs for 3 -bed hospice
Darryl Coote
Postmedia Network
Jessica's House won $100,000
from the Aviva Community
Fund Dec. 6, beating out hun-
dreds of other charitable com-
munity initiatives in Canada.
"I don't know if there are
words that could adequately
express how we felt about it,"
said Executive Director of the
South Huron Hospital Founda-
tion Kimberly Payne over the
phone Dec. 16. "... Over 9,000
people in our area and around
the world voted for us, voted us
first place so it's very exciting.
Very, very exciting."
For about a year the South
Huron Hospital Foundation's
hospice initiative has been rais-
ing money and community sup-
port to break ground on a new
three -bed hospice in Exeter. She
says this victory shows the com-
munity support of a project that
has struggled to get recognition
from the South West LHIN.
The LHIN is currently in the
process of deciding the location
of 10 beds within Huron and
Perth counties, with Clinton and
Stratford being the two locations
recommended for the beds.
Following the announcement
by Aviva that Jessica's House had
won the money, the LHIN sent
out a statement saying "no deci-
sions on bed locations have
been made" and that it "appreci-
ates the hard work and effort
which community members
have invested to provide advice
about the location and number
of beds across Huron -Perth."
In another media release, the
The floor plan for the hospice shows three large bedrooms with private
porches.
LHIN reaffirmed its stance that
it will not make a decision on
the beds at the very earliest in
January 2017.
Payne says the win from Aviva
should make the LHIN more
aware of the community sup-
port for its project.
"It should raise their awareness
level that the community strongly
believes that this is something
they want in the community. And
it's a community position they're
ready to go. And AVIVA feels the
same way otherwise they
wouldn't have chosen us out of all
those projects in Canada to do
this work," she said.
She continued that she has
spoken with the LHIN board
and a member there has told her
Jessica's House's position will be
heard, whether through that
board member or by the hospice
initiative itself.
She said it was "extremely
frustrating" before that as they
weren't involved in the decision
process. But now they feel "a lit-
tle more confident" they will be
heard.
Jessica's house, she said,
wants the LHIN to be a creative
leader and try to find solutions
to this problem.
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