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The CHATS Day Centre is formally reopened
Wednesday 11th March 2015
In his opening remarks to members of the public and guests who were attending the launch of Cowal Hospice and Therapy Services in the newly refurbished Hospice Day Centre, Councillor Dick Walsh said that, as the longest standing of the Board of Trustees, he remembered how the original ambition to create a fully functioning hospice could not be sustained due to the costs involved. He went on to say that eventually a partnership emerged with the NHS leading to the Cowal Hospice and Supported Care inpatient unit. However, some 4 to 5 years ago as the delivery of palliative care in the community was rethought, the old Hospice area was redeveloped into the new CHATS facility that was being relaunched today. The redevelopment had been a partnership between Ardgowan Hospice, the NHS and the Trust.
Following Councillor Walsh's remarks, the cutting of a ribbon to formally relaunch CHATS was carried out by two Dunoon Grammar pupils, Faye Gilfillan who was the winner of the competition to create the CHATS logo and her friend Emmerson Laing, the runner up in the competition.
During the open day, members of the team involved in the day centre as well as NHS nurses from the Hospital provided guided tours of the hospice facility. Tea and coffee and home baking was provided by a volunteer Linda Mawer.