Making an Impact in Our Community
The OutCare Foundation works with and supports hospice organizations that are a part of the Champlain Health Region. We regularly communicate with our hospice network, who are on the front-line in delivering palliative care via group Zoom calls. These important calls provide the opportunity for hospices to share insights and experience. Their feedback informs our understanding of current needs, funding gaps and opportunities so that grants can be awarded as needed.
Our Hospice Network
How Donations are Used
Your donations are invested in much needed palliative care programs throughout the Champlain Health Region through OutCare grants. It is exciting to hear how these funds helped deliver innovative and compassionate care to patients and their loved ones.
Your donations helped:
- Beth Donovan Hospice to develop and implement an outreach plan to recruit and train new volunteers;
- Dianne Morrison Hospice at the Ottawa Mission to purchase a portable oxygen concentrator and an electric high-low hospital bed.
- Home Hospice North Lanark to provide training for non-paid caregivers and palliative care volunteers; and
- Carefor Pembroke Community Hospice Program to connect to foster connections with caregivers of palliative clients by providing them with Care Kits.
Ongoing Initiatives
We are continually adapting and responding to the changing needs in the community. Here are some of our ongoing initiatives:
Success Stories
Grants Program
The OutCare Foundation has funded community-based palliative in the Champlain Health Region since 2001. We provide support for equipment, volunteer training and to programs that give respite for family and friends caring for palliative patients.
We have expanded our reach in a new direction to focus on programs that deliver in-home palliative care to patients that have chosen to remain at home. By offering two rounds of funding per year, we can be more responsive to the changing needs of the hospices in our community.
We do not fund requests for administration, deficit reduction, capital campaigns or individuals.
