Before the end of this year, terminal patients too sick to leave Tallahassee Memorial It will be the fruition of a new partnership that's providing a unique community service.
An almost universal fear is leaving this life in a sterile, impersonal hospital room full of life-prolonging machines. So First Commerce Credit Union CEO Cecilia Homison said her credit union is helping build a serene, home-like environment on the hospital's 3rd floor to provide end-of-life care by Big Bend Hospice.
"To have something in the hospital when people are in such a fragile point, to stay in the hospital and receive that care they need."
The patient's loved ones will be welcome around-the-clock. And the credit union's million-dollar project kickoff donation conferred naming rights for the "First Commerce Center for Compassionate Care." Although Big Bend Hospice Fondation President Dena Strickland said there's still a ways to go.
"We have already raised just over $4 million of our $5 million goal."
A goal they hope will be reached before the new in-hospital hospice center opens in November of this year.
