DeLauro: Connecticut Hospice Awarded $1.9M Community Project Funding

BRANFORD, CT —Connecticut Hospice was awarded $1,940,000 in Community Project Funding Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) announced this week.

“This funding is intended for the improvements needed to ensure Connecticut Hospice does not have to relocate patients from its Branford headquarters during natural disasters,” DeLauro said.

The Congresswoman reinstituted Community Project Funding in the 2022 federal spending package, it was noted.

The Connecticut Hospice moved to its 100 Double Beach Road location in 2001, replacing the Echlin Corporation, which spent 20 years at the waterfront location. Renovations at that time did not upgrade essential building infrastructure that has since become critical to operations of the Hospice inpatient facility and home care headquarters.

“This grant is going to take Connecticut Hospice to the next step into the future,” Hospice President and CEO Barbara Pearce said.

Connecticut Hospice, a 501(c)(3) not for profit, was established in the 1970s as a result of America’s hospice movement. Today, America’s first hospice continues to set the national standard for home and inpatient hospice care and has become a leader in palliative care.

The Connecticut Hospice provides comprehensive and compassionate hospice, palliative, and other supportive care management services with an inter-disciplinary team that is medical-directed and nurse-coordinated. Together, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, clergy, art and music therapists, and trained volunteers actively assist each patient and family to navigate the myriad of challenges surrounding irreversible illness.