{"id":197928,"date":"2023-12-07T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=197928"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:19:30","slug":"hospice-care-centre-in-cobourg-receives-funding-for-four-news-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/hospice-care-centre-in-cobourg-receives-funding-for-four-news-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice Care Centre in Cobourg receives funding for four news beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The Ontario government is investing $893,000 <span id=\"m_7958375126089154188m_2633493542712342640gmail-docs-internal-guid-064e2d8b-7fff-77be-15a0-ceb5527fb98e\">Ed's House Northumberland Hospice Care Centre in Cobourg, which will help increase the number of beds from six to 10.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini announced Friday morning $283,800 for the six current beds at Community Care Northumberland\u2019s Ed\u2019s House and an additional $609,200 in operational funding for the four new beds. It\u2019s part of a $147.4 million dollar investment from the government over three years for palliative care, he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ed\u2019s House provides end-of-life care at no cost to patients. Community Care Northumberland CEO Trish Baird said the original plan was for a six-bed facility, but a donor provided funding and suggested work be completed during the construction process to enable expansion for more rooms when possible.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\"Having them roughed in, they still need work to be done, so none of the furnitures or fixtures...but they're there so it will be a lot less disruption for the people there,\" Baird said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Baird added 10 beds an efficient number for hospice centres and Ed's House will add a personal support worker to its staff.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Listen to the audio report below:<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is investing $893,000 Ed&#8217;s House Northumberland Hospice Care Centre in Cobourg, which will help increase the number of beds from six to 10. Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini announced Friday morning $283,800 for the six current beds at Community Care Northumberland\u2019s Ed\u2019s House and an additional $609,200 in operational funding for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":197946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[25834,1046,9955],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201731,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197928\/revisions\/201731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197928"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=197928"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=197928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}