Health authority signs deal to build hospice

HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s largest health authority will help build a 10-bed hospice for people who cannot die at home.

The Hospice Society in Halifax and the Nova Scotia Health Authority have signed a memorandum to collaborate on the residential facility in Halifax.

They hope to open it in the city’s south end in December 2017.

Wendy Fraser, CEO of Hospice Halifax, says the residential hospice will create an “affordable and home-like option” for people at the end of their lives.

The hospice is part of the government’s plan to decentralize services from the aging Centennial building at the VG site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre.

The plan is to renovate buildings owned by the Atlantic School of Theology through a drive to raise $6 million for the renovation and development of the residence.