Calling it “a journey that has been stressful, energizing, loving and worth every minute,” Cynthia E. Roy, CEO and president of Regional Hospice and Home Care, cut the ribbon at the hospice’s new Center for Comfort Care & Healing in Danbury, Connecticut, on January 26, surrounded by approximately 200 major donors, political supporters and others who helped bring a new era in end-of-life care to the people of Connecticut.
The 36,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility is Connecticut’s first and only nonprofit, family focused, all-private-suite hospice center. More than 1,000 patients, many of them children, are expected to come to the Center during the first year. After thanking many of the key people who helped to make the Center a reality, Roy honored the entire Regional Hospice staff. “A passing should be sacred. It should be honored. It should be witnessed,” said Roy. “We are hospice workers. We are witnesses to this final sacred moment in someone's life. We are blessed and honored to help our patients and their families at this deeply personal time.”
KVON image: Cynthia E. Roy, president and CEO of Regional Hospice and Home Care, cuts the ribbon at the new Center for Comfort Care & Healing.