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Grant Stories
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| The Community Foundation of West Alabama was pleased to give grants to several of these organizations in 2005 through the Education Fund and Anna Brown Education, Health and Welfare Fund. Below are some of the grants the Community Foundation of West Alabama was pleased to give through these funds in 2005. | |
Hospice of West Alabama |
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Hospice of West Alabama has been serving this community for over twenty years. Hospices throughout the United States generally care for terminally ill patients in their own homes, among family and friends. However, sometimes a patient needs additional care that can best be provided in an inpatient care facility. With this in mind, Hospice of West Alabama recently built and moved into a ten-bed inpatient facility. Tucked away in a peaceful setting on the Veterans Administration Hospital grounds in Tuscaloosa, this facility provides a home-like environment for the patients and their loved ones. |
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Complete with comfortably
furnished common rooms, a kitchen for family members, beautiful
artwork donated by local artists, and private porches off patients’ rooms,
the facility was designed to meet both the physical and emotional
needs of patients an their loved ones. The Hospice of West
Alabama carries out the traditions of Hospices around the country
and yet is distinct in that it is one of only three in the state
of Alabama that has an inpatient facility, was the first in Alabama
to care for an AIDS patient, and was the first to care for a child. |
Bess Miller, Community Awareness Coordinator of Hospice of West Alabama, has been with the organization for over 19 years. She first started volunteering when she was asked to help care for a young mother and her children. She has been with Hospice ever since. Mrs. Miller stresses how the organization has strived to remove the stigma of Hospice as a place of last resort instead of one of comfort and consolation. No issue related to patient care or family concern is beyond the concern of the staff at Hospice. Recently when a patient who had struggled with loss of appetite expressed a craving for shrimp, Ms. Miller immediately went down the street to the local grocery store to purchase some for the kitchen staff to prepare. These small acts of kindness are those that are usually done by loved ones, but at Hospice are also carried out by concerned staff and volunteers. So comforted are loved ones of patients, that many come back as volunteers themselves. The Community Foundation of West Alabama was pleased to award a grant to Hospice of West Alabama of $1000 to be used for the purchase of recliners for the patient rooms. If you would like to find out more about Hospice of West Alabama or would like to donate funds to be used for meaningful grants such as this please contact us for more information. |
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