{"id":14275,"date":"2021-12-14T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:10:59","slug":"australias-first-adolescent-and-young-adult-hospice-offers-great-comfort-to-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/12\/14\/australias-first-adolescent-and-young-adult-hospice-offers-great-comfort-to-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#039;s First Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice Offers Great Comfort To Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major works are due to begin next week on the $19.5 million Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice, marking a significant milestone for the unique facility.<br \/>\nHealth\u00a0Minister Brad Hazzard and Member for Manly James Griffin MP visited the site to inspect progress ahead of the first major concrete pour.<br \/>\n\u201cThis incredible project is Australia\u2019s first dedicated hospice caring for young people\u00a0with life-limiting illness\u00a0and will provide support to families from all over NSW,\u201d Mr Hazzard said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe facility will give young people and their families a tranquil, supportive environment at the most difficult of times by providing respite care, counselling, symptom management and end-of-life care.\u201d<br \/>\nMember for Manly James Griffin said the Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice will work closely with dedicated children\u2019s hospice, Bear Cottage, to assist families to continue to care for young people as they become adults.<br \/>\n\u201cEach year, about a quarter of admissions to Bear Cottage are over the age of 16 and there has been no appropriate place for them to move to,\u201d Mr Griffin said.<br \/>\n\u201cNo matter where someone is from in NSW, this beautiful state-of-the-art facility in Manly will be a welcoming place for young adults who are diagnosed with life-limiting conditions.\u201d<br \/>\nMore than $6.5 million has been raised for this project through generous community donations, which has been boosted by an $8 million investment from the NSW Government and $5 million from the Commonwealth Government.<br \/>\nHealth Infrastructure is working closely with the Northern Sydney Local Health District and expert clinicians to deliver the hospice, which will be located at the former Manly Hospital site on the North Head headland.<br \/>\nConstruction is due for completion late next year.<br \/>\nFor further information and to support the Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice, visit\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL:\nhttp:\/\/www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au\/Manly\nClick to follow link.\" href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au%2FManly&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cwebmaster%40nsw.liberal.org.au%7C1128b78a610e4ab81f8208d9be9ffed6%7Cf7b9e888f8a7467190c0d6ca09a51633%7C0%7C0%7C637750416830779737%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=yvOV%2BvZfrto2XfSDtwqFnHtE9Y8ALDrSmYReG76zmmk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au\/Manly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major works are due to begin next week on the $19.5 million Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice, marking a significant milestone for the unique facility. Health\u00a0Minister Brad Hazzard and Member for Manly James Griffin MP visited the site to inspect progress ahead of the first major concrete pour. \u201cThis incredible project is Australia\u2019s first dedicated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/12\/14\/australias-first-adolescent-and-young-adult-hospice-offers-great-comfort-to-families\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia&#039;s First Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice Offers Great Comfort To Families&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}