Tag: Residential Hospice Grey Bruce

  • News provides ‘immense opportunity’ to build hospice in Walkerton

    Saugeen Hospice chairman Carl Kuhnke said his organization’s new charitable status and other news is all favourable for building a new hospice in Walkerton, which will offer free end-of-life care. Residential Hospice Grey Bruce, which runs Chapman House hospice in Owen Sound, was originally going to build a satellite hospice serving southern Grey-Bruce. But about…

  • Province provides extra funds for local residential hospice

    Residential Hospice of Grey Bruce received $340,000 in one-time funding from the provincial government for help with shortfalls during the pandemic. This funding is welcome said Janet Fairbridge, the executive director of the hospice organization which runs Chapman House in Owen Sound. The money will help cover increased staffing costs, infection protection and control and…

  • Local foxhound association raises funds for hospice

    A long-time Southampton foxhound hunter’s death inspired his fellow hunters to raise money for the hospice in Owen Sound. After Bob Mahon died in March 2019, Don Bannerman and others organized their first local hunting field trial in his honour later that year. It raised $3,500 that year, $4,500 the next and this year, $6,005…