A hospice that acts as a home away from home for those near the end of life, Jessica\u2019s House in Exeter, Ont., is named after University of Guelph alumna Jessica Marie Hamather (B.Sc. \u201915). The 22-year-old died in late 2015 from a rare form of cancer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Intended as a place of compassion, dignity and respect that would honour Hamather\u2019s memory, Jessica\u2019s House opened this past June as a three-bedroom residential hospice to provide palliative care. Health-care officials recognized a longstanding need for residential hospice beds in Huron County, where Jessica was born and raised.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A two-year fundraising campaign collected $3 million for the building.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Construction on the South Huron Hospital Foundation project began in summer 2017, and the facility opened a year later on land in south Exeter donated by a local family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Jessica\u2019s mother, Maria Hamather, co-chaired the steering committee for the project. She said as the project took shape that her daughter \u201cwould have loved this wonderful and peaceful place.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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