Community Home Health & Hospice is now $250,000 closer to opening its new grief support center.
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust awarded the nonprofit agency a grant last week for the addition to its new Salmon Creek campus.
Fundraising for the project has now topped $2 million; the goal is about $3.1 million. Earlier this year, Community Home Health & Hospice received $1 million from the state.
“We are so thankful to the Murdock Trust,” said Greg Pang, Community Home Health & Hospice’s president and CEO, in a news release. “They add so much more than dollars to our project. Their name has a tremendous amount of integrity and impact with our donors.”
The construction timeline will depend on fundraising. The organization hopes to begin the design phase next summer, with construction to follow in 2017.
Once built, the 9,000-square-foot grief support center will include space for children, teen and adult programs, as well as a memorial garden — which will be open to the public — and a conference center. The land for the new center has already been acquired.
“Our grief support facilities are unique and are meant to serve grief support needs throughout the many stages of life,” Pang said in the news release. “We also offer grief support to anyone who has suffered loss from natural death, suicide, violence, natural disaster or military action.”
The grief center will be built adjacent to the new Community Hospice Care Center Salmon Creek, 3102 N.E. 134th St.
The grief support center is the second phase of Community Home Health & Hospice’s plans for the Salmon Creek campus. The first phase was the 10-bed hospice care center that opened this spring. The hospice center cost about $8.7 million, which includes the cost of the 6-acre site.
Longview-based Community Home Health & Hospice offers home care personal services, home health, hospice and bereavement services in Clark, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, and Columbia, Ore., counties.
