The OutCare Foundation/La Fondation OutCare
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Mission Statement
For three decades the OutCare Foundation has championed palliative care. Why? Because we care. There is a voice inside telling us there is a better way, a voice advocating for us to choose our best path. Quality-of-care matters. Quality-of-life matters. The journey matters. The OutCare Foundation is driven to fund palliative care initiatives because we have seen first-hand how quality care improves the lives of families, individuals, and communities. We are here to make sure anyone living with serious illness has options. They should have access to specialized, patient-centered care that treats the symptoms and the stress of living with a serious illness. At every stage. At any age. Why? Because all of our families deserve nothing less.
About This Cause
The OutCare Foundation is an independent registered charity dedicated to raising funds for community-based palliative care in Eastern Ontario. Our goal is for individuals and their families to have access to the care and support they need for their end-of-life journey. Our mandate doesn’t tie us to any agency, government, or provider, allowing us to fund priorities in our community, and to assess and provide support where it is needed most. As we move towards our 4th decade in the community and our 20th anniversary as the OutCare Foundation, we continue to respond to the changing needs of our community. We are now launching a new fundraising campaign to focus primarily on the support of in-home palliative care programs provided by the hospices in the Champlain Health Region. Over the past decade our community has changed, and a series of strategic planning sessions supported by these demographic facts from a Health Canada study have helped us revise our focus: The majority (75%) of the population prefer to spend their final days in the comfort of their homes; Only 15% of people receive palliative specific home care in their final month of life. The number of people over the age of 80 will double by 2036. Our region has only 62 residential hospice beds (in 8 locations) and one dedicated 31-bed sub-acute palliative care unit (Bruyère) for a total of 93 palliative care beds to serve a region of over 1.3 million. The current residential hospice model for palliative care does not have the capacity to handle the demand within our community. The OutCare Foundation will support this need to deliver palliative services into homes to ease the burden on the families and on the healthcare system. Please join us on this new direction and help to make it possible for more people in our community to live out their final days with love, hope and dignity.