Q: What is hospice palliative care? A: Hospice palliative care is whole-person care for people living with advancing illness; it includes specialized medical care as well as addressing social, psychological and spiritual needs. The focus is on quality of life, rather than on a cure. It is care based on the dying person’s own goals […]

Q: Why do we need a hospice when we are getting a new hospital? A: Cowichan Hospice House is a companion project to the new hospital. It will immediately provide a more appropriate and cost effective option for those who cannot be cared for at home at the end of their lives, but who don’t […]

      Q: Don’t we already have a hospice house in Cowichan? A: Not yet! And we need your help to build one. Q: Why do we need a hospice house? A: Many people in Cowichan are cared for at home at the end of their lives, but sometimes there is no-one available around […]

Published in the Cowichan Valley Citizen newspaper September 14, 2018. Cowichan Hospice House is set to open its doors in 2020 Eager to bring quality and specialized end-of-life care to the region, local health care auxiliaries have pledged more than $600,000 to the Cowichan Hospice House project. Cowichan Hospice staff were touched that Joan Hayden-Luck […]

Cowichan Hospice will be offering a seven session Deep Listening Volunteer Training in the Fall of 2018. If you are interested in attending, please fill out a Volunteer Application and send it to cornelia.cvhs@shaw.ca