Hospice Buffalo cut the ribbon today on it's newly renovated facilities in Cheektowaga.
The $10-million-dollar project involved the total renovation of Hospice Buffalo's main clinical building and it's 22-bed inpatient unit, for those most in need of critical care.
Hospice Buffalo Foundation President Patrick Flynn says the rehab included installing bay windows in patients rooms and smart televisions for video conferencing with out of town family members.
"We recognize that those that come here, often are coming for the final days of life and we want to create a setting that provides that warmth, that comfort, that support. It's a home-like setting," notes Flynn.
Flynn says the Health Department will be touring the facility tomorrow and hopefully, he says, Hospice will get approval to begin moving patients in again.
The project was funded by a Hospice donation drive as well as grants from several local foundations and a 2-point-7-million-dollar gift from the late husband of a former Hospice patient. The facility is named after the couple - "The William M. & Phyllis Bender Care Center."
