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Bayshore Home Health’s Living with Dying conference raises $10,000 for Bobby’s Hope House

SAINT JOHN, NB, October 17, 2006 – Bayshore Home Health, Canada’s largest provider of home and community health services, has raised $10,000 for Bobby’s Hope House – Atlantic Canada’s first stand-alone hospice house – through a number of community fundraising events organized by its staff.

The main fundraising event is the October 19-20 conference Living with Dying, cosponsored by Hospice Greater Saint John, a community charity that provides non-medical palliative support programs and which also operates Bobby’s Hope House.

“Bobby’s Hope House is such a great accomplishment for our community,” says Tina Landry, an administrator in Bayshore’s Saint John office and the company’s key organizer in this fundraising initiative. “Because we are a home care provider and regularly provide care to palliative clients, our staff wanted to do something that would ‘give back’ to our community’s palliative care resources and the many fine people who
are involved in this area.”

The conference, being held in Saint John’s Delta Brunswick Hotel, offers a unique opportunity for health care professionals and caregivers to learn how they, along with families and friends of individuals nearing death, can interact to make the final journey more comfortable for all involved while maximizing the quality of life for the patient.

Featured speakers are Stephen Jenkinson, a specialist in children’s grief and palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto; Dr. Nancy Grant, a radiation oncologist who was instrumental in the establishment of Hospice Greater Saint John and Bobby’s Hope House; and Holly Quinn, Director of Clinical Programs for Bayshore Home Health.

Other fundraising events that Bayshore’s Saint John staff participated in were asking people to make a donation so their names would appear on bricks that will comprise a wall inside Bobby’s Hope House and organizing a local draw for a digital camera. Bayshore’s head office in Mississauga, Ont. also donated funds to the initiative.

Bayshore will present the $10,000 donation at the conclusion of the conference, on Friday afternoon, October 19.

About Bayshore Home Health
Bayshore Home Health has been delivering home and community health care services to Canadians since 1966. Canadian owned and operated, with more than 30 offices and 5,500 caregivers across the country, the company’s main services are in-home nursing, personal care, support and companion services. These services can be purchased privately by consumers and in many cases are funded by government care programs, personal and group insurance plans, and workplace safety insurance.

Bayshore Home Health’s specialty services include temporary staffing of health care professionals, pharmaceutical product support services, health education programs, community infusion clinics and dialysis centres.

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