£2,500 for Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice

O’Brien have presented a cheque for £2,500 to Zoё’s Place Baby Hospice in Coventry.

This fantastic organisation provides palliative, respite and end of life care to babies and infants aged from birth to five years suffering from life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. This care is provided in a caring, safe, home from home environment.

Some of the wonderful services that Zoe’s Place provide are detailed below, but for full details of all service use this link:

https://www.zoes-place.org.uk/coventry/default.aspx

Therapies

Zoë’s Place provide respite for families who have a child aged between 0-5 years, who have a life limiting or life threatening condition. During the time that the child stays with Zoe’s place, they provide various different therapies in order to try and improve quality of life.

Bereavement Support

Zoe’s place support the whole family through the challenges that they face. The nurses are trained and on hand to provide counselling, support & advice to the families at any time (even in the middle of the night), providing bereavement support during the most difficult time of anyone’s life, dealing with the loss of a child. No one can imagine how hard it must be to go through this, but Zoe’s place Nurses are trained to provide support in the most sensitive and effective way. Families can also make use of the Family Suite, even if they have had no contact with Zoë’s Place before.

End of Life Care – Starlight Room

Zoe’s family suite, is available to be used by any family suffering with the loss of a child aged between 0-5 years. Zoe’s place offer end of life care in the starlight room, which is also available for children who have recently passed away elsewhere. The family suite consists of a temperature controlled ‘Starlight room’ for the baby to be laid to rest, a communal living area for the family to spend time in, a conservatory & private kitchen area, a private garden, and a private bedroom (3 pullout sofa beds 1 double 2 single) and tv. This is all to give the family as much privacy and time as they need, whilst also having access to trained staff at all times. This suite allows the family to stay with the child from the time of passing, right up until the funeral and the charity can also assist with practical things such as registering the death, sorting funeral arrangements, counselling, supporting siblings and creating memory boxes for the family to keep.