New wing offers care upgrade
ANEW wing at East Cheshire Hospice entirely funded by the amazing generosity of Proseal uk Ltd officially opened last Thursday.
The extension at the charity’s site on Millbank Drive, Macclesfield, will be known as The Proseal Wing honouring the name of the company cofounded by Steve Malone and Rob Hargreaves.
The building will act as a Co-ordinated Care Hub for the charity’s Hospice @Home service which has been an overwhelming success since it began almost four years ago.
It will also accommodate the new co-ordinated care service, developed to help guide both the patient and their family through the complexity of end-of-life care.
The clinical leadership team and some support services will also be based in the new twostorey block which is sited at the back of the Hospice and links the clinical ward with the administration unit.
Contractors finished the 10-month project on schedule without causing any disruption to the charity’s day-to-day care provisions.
Hospice @Home and the Co-ordinated Care Service has been funded by so-called Hospice Angels who pledged to support the service over its first five years.
East Cheshire Hospice Chief Executive Karyn Johnston said: “We’re delighted and proud to be able to open this new building which provides such a valuable and significant resource to our community and is an essential part of our plans for the future.
“It’s only been possible thanks to the generosity of Proseal’s co-founders Steve Malone and Rob Hargreaves and we thank them sincerely.
“The Proseal Wing allows the hospice to move into the next stage of our Hospice @Home project, putting East Cheshire Hospice at the centre of co-ordinating palliative care community.
“It means that more people than ever before will be able to access end-of-life care and support at home, and receive specialist care if needed at the hospice.”
Hospice @Home extends end-of-life care into people’s homes providing hands-on medical care, psychological supin our port, symptom management, end-of- life care and care after death.
East Cheshire Hospice is the second lowest funded in the country, receiving 17 per cent of the income it needs to keep going from government.
It costs £7,500 a day to provide palliative care for patients, their family and carers.