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WEDGETAIL RETREAT

Wedgetail Retreat Community Hospice started with a dream: a deep desire to fulfil the community need for an inclusive, 24/7 specialised palliative care facility in the region.

Clients with a life-limiting illness and their families are welcomed into our modern home-like environment in a rainforest setting. Friendly Registered Nurses and trained volunteer palliative carers offer a client-centred approach to caring for you and your loved ones. The vulnerable and disadvantaged are cared for free of charge. Clients and families that can afford to, donate funds to assist with ongoing operational costs.

Despite our popular hospice taking the burden off the health system, especially for high need palliative clients and those who do not have a full-time carer at home, we are not government funded by NSW state government.

Each year our combined Hospice services support more than 600 palliative clients and this number increases into the thousands when our other clients and family support services are included.

TPS offers best practice, client-centred emotional and physical palliative care support. We collaborate with multi-disciplinary medical teams and community services (volunteers, nursing homes, home health agencies, councils, social workers, community health workers) in the Northern Rivers region and beyond.

Wedgetail Retreat Hospice’s philosophy is to provide a space where people can be themselves. Each patient and their family will be on a unique and individual journey towards letting go. Our team specialise in providing education and information to support clients and their loved ones to make the best decisions based on what is most important to them at that stage of life. Our hospice focuses on the concept of living well and helping our guests to establish a deep sense of meaning and connection during their final days of life.