The ribbon was officially cut on Wednesday at a new family care center at Calvary Hospital, as hospital leaders say the renovations are designed to provide comfort and compassion for patients and their loved ones during end-of-life care.<\/p>\n
The Bronx hospital, founded in 1899, serves more than 6,000 patients annually across all five boroughs and is the nation\u2019s only fully accredited specialty hospital dedicated exclusively to adult palliative care. Hospital officials say it also cares for 20% of all cancer-related deaths in the New York metro area.<\/p>\n
The new family care center includes a redesigned lobby, living room-style suites and a 317-gallon aquarium intended to create a calmer and more peaceful environment for patients and families.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe patient and the family, they do face end of life here at Calvary,\u201d Jeff Menkes, chair of the Calvary hospital board, said during the ceremony. \u201cAnd the sensitivity has to begin from the moment you walk in the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hospital leaders said the renovations are focused not only on patient care, but also on supporting loved ones emotionally and spiritually.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have patients we\u2019re caring for upstairs, but we\u2019re caring for the emotions and the spiritual of the patients\u2019 families,\u201d said Michael Fosina, the President of Calvary Hospital.<\/p>\n
A blessing ceremony for the new space was led by Father Chris Devron, who previously served as president of Fordham Preparatory School.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ask for your blessing upon this new lobby and family center at Calvary Hospital,\u201d Devron said during the ceremony.<\/p>\n
The new center also features the \u201cCompatior\u201d statue \u2014 Latin for \u201cto suffer with\u201d \u2014 symbolizing the hospital\u2019s mission of compassion and support for families facing difficult moments.<\/p>\n
Hospital leaders said the goal of the renovations is simple: helping patients and families find comfort, dignity and compassion during life\u2019s most challenging times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ribbon was officially cut on Wednesday at a new family care center at Calvary Hospital, as hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-230950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}