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KatowiceCordis Hospice cares for children and adults suffering from cancer, providing them and their families with holistic, specialist and free care. The hospice started 24 years ago in in Mysłowice. On 17 December 2011, a new Hospice in Katowice was completed, thanks to funds from the EU and the support individual donors and sponsors.
The hospice includes 38 rooms, including 9 for young patients. Every room is set up to accommodate a sick child or adult together with their family or carer. The hospice has specialist clinics: a lymphedema clinic, a preventative and bedsore treatment clinic, and a physiotherapy clinic. Patients can receive individual or family counselling, as well as music therapy rooms, activity therapy rooms, a gym, and for children a world discovery room. The hospice team hopes that Cordis Hospice in its new home in Katowice will be a place for living and departing with dignity for children and adults. The Hospice cares for around 100 patients at any one time, including adults and children, both in their own homes and within the residential hospice. Due to the large number of patients the hospice does not have sufficient funds to provide all medicines without help. To date, the Alina Foundation has donated:
"The Cordis Hospice has cared for families touched by cancer and terminal illness, at home and within the residential hospice, for over 24 years. Your gift of medical equipment worth 1500 zł, for which we thank you with all our hearts, has been used entirely to meet the needs of everyday care for adults and children at the residential hospice." - Jolanta Grabowska Markowska, Prezes Read more on the hospice webpage |
The Alina Foundation
