Lodz Hospice Association [Новость добавлена - 16.01.2008]

The Lodz Hospice Association was established in 1992 on the initiative of Prof. Leszek Woźniak former Rector of the Medical Academy of Lodz and Head of the Oncology Department. The Lodz Hospice Association is a non-governmental and a public benefit organization (National Court Register 0000 137 523). The basic objectives of the Association are: taking care of incurable patients and their relatives by providing medical, psychological, spiritual, emotional, material and bereavement support, organizing training courses for medical staff, organising charity programs, and conducting scientific research. Apart from the above mentioned activities our organization assist the Father Rafal Chyliński`s Hospice, which is situated in the 4th Nursing Home in Lodz. The Lodz Hospice Association closely collaborate with the Palliative Care Unit of the Oncology Department at the Medical University in Lodz in organizing postgraduate training courses for general practitioners, internal medicine specialists, nurses as well as in conducting researches in the field of palliative care. The Lodz Hospice Association also run an out-patient clinic and provide home care services (home hospice) and care for approximately 50 patients each month. The Lodz Hospice Association is a charitable organization. It means that all our services provided for patients are free of charge. The most important source of financing our medical activity is the state budget. Our charitable activities are made possible by the support of sponsors, and we continuously try to win further sponsorships. The most important problem in Lodz is an insufficiency of palliative care beds. Therefore the main goal of the Lodz Hospice Association is to build the first stationary hospice in our city. In 2006 the Lodz Hospice Association received a grant for the project: "Transfer of Polish experience in palliative medicine to Ukraine". The partner organization in this project was the Association of Medical Workers from Kyiv (Ukraine). The project has been financed by Polish-American Freedom Foundation. In October 2007 the Lodz Hospice Association organized a Conference entitled "15 years of palliative care in Central Poland". The key topics of the Conference were standards and organizations in palliative care, problems in symptomatic treatments, pain treatment related problems in psycho-oncology, palliative nursing, voluntary work in palliative care. The Conference hosted approximately 500 participants, mainly from Poland, but there were guests also from Ukraine, Belarus and Great Britain.   Anna Mardofel PR & Fundraising Specialist Lodz Hospice Association e-mail:hospicjum@sns.pl website: www.hospicjum.sns.pl

From the CEE Palliative Care Newsletter Vol.III. No.12. Dcember 2007