About

 

The Near North Palliative Care Network (NNPCN) is the Volunteer Visiting Hospice of Nipissing/Parry Sound Districts. NNPCN is a registered charity providing one-stop, face-to-face and online Volunteer Visiting Hospice Community Services. All of our services are free of charge.

Illness and grief know no boundaries. Regardless of age, race, religion, culture, identity, or background…  NNPCN welcomes and supports everyone with compassion, respect, and without judgment

Main Office in North Bay, ON. Satellite Teams in Sturgeon Falls (West Nipissing), Mattawa and Area and Sundridge (Almaguin).

Charitable Organization. B.N.: 892020884RR0001.
Registration Date: 1995 April 01

 

Our Mission

To enhance the comfort, dignity, and quality of life of individuals with a terminal illness, and to offer bereavement support throughout the community.

Our Vision

Our Vision is that every resident of Northeastern Ontario can experience their end-of-life with dignity and comfort, pain-free, and with physical, psychological, social, and spiritual support provided to them wherever they may be living: in the hospital, in hospices, in long-term care facilities or at home.

We support a decentralized model of palliative caregiving, going to the client where the client is.

Our Core Values

  • Human Dignity
    We value each person as a unique individual with a right to respect and acceptance.
  • Compassion
    We value a quality of presence and caring that accepts people as they are and fosters healing and acceptance.
  • Social Responsibility
    We value integrity and the promotion of the just use of resources entrusted to us for the enhancement of human life.
  • Community Service
    We value a work climate of mutual trust and harmony that enables healing, collaboration, and the fulfillment of human potential.
  • Excellence
    We value the quality of care, work-life balance, and ongoing education and training.

Operating Principles

Individuals with a life-limiting illness, family, and caregivers are at the centre of care, compassionate listening, companioning, non-judgmental support, confidentiality, and professionalism.

Contact Us: we can get you the help you need.

Bill Hardman – Executive Director

Solomon Ameh – Event and Fundraising Coordinator

Oluwasola Ijalana – Administrative Assistant/ Volunteer Coordinator

Sireesha Muppalla – Bereavement Coordinator

Lauralea Eldridge –  Communications and Public Relations Coordinator

Bhavana Hassan Dinesh – Palliative Services Coordinator

📞 Reach out to us for safe, confidential support.
* 705-497-9239 * [email protected]

Organizational Background and Accreditation

The Near North Palliative Care Network has been providing palliative and bereavement services in the Nipissing and Parry Sound Districts since 1987.  Our mission is  to enhance the comfort, dignity and quality of life of individuals with a terminal illness, and to offer bereavement support throughout the community. We are a visiting palliative care hospice, that is completely volunteer-driven, free of charge, working in collaboration with other agencies offering end-of-life care.

We have a total of 2 permanent staff positions (Executive Director and Administrative Assistant/Volunteer Coordinator) plus 2 contracted staff and 2 annual Interns funded with a grant from NOHFC.  We typically range from 100-120 volunteers of which, on average, 60-80 are active in the field at any given time.

Our hard working volunteers serve the community as board members, palliative care providers, bereavement facilitators,  in long-term care facilities, hospitals, homes, participating in fundraising work, or office work. We support our clients in the community.  Proportionally 60% of our volunteers work within respite support, 35% bereavement support, and 5% other.  Of the volunteers who work within respite support 55% provide support in the client’s home.

HPCO Accreditation

HPCO Accreditation