About TheTake Back Delta Hospice Movement

We are a group of Delta Hospice Advocates who support the former Board Members who spearheaded the legal action against the current Board of Directors of Delta Hospice. They took the current board to court in order to restore accountability to the membership and the wider community who built Delta Hospice. Our goal now is to engage concerned citizens to become members of the Society in order to vote at the next Annual General Meeting (AGM) for a Board of Directors committed to ensuring that:

caring for patients and their loved ones in need of support is at the forefront of every decision
every citizen, without exclusion, is welcomed and offered support that follows the highest standard of palliative care and current best practices in end of life care and grief and bereavement support
all staff and volunteers are treated with professionalism, respect and dignity
funding is prioritized towards patient care, volunteer training and grief and bereavement counselling
the Constitution and Bylaws remain respectful and inclusive of all belief systems and personal values of every person who is admitted to care at the Hospice or attends counselling programming

Hospice Stories

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The Delta Hospice Story

The Hospice we know today are two buildings located in Ladner, B.C. beside Delta Hospital on Fraser Health Authority lands. The Delta Cares Capital Campaign was widely supported by the community, business and major donors and the Province of B.C., and the funds raised built the Irene Thomas Hospice and Harold and Veronica Savage Centre for Supportive Care, which were officially opened in January of 2010. Read more...

Supporting our Delta Hospice. Community rallies and marches to Delta City Hall. June 13, 2020, Delta, BC

Legal Challenge

We believe these actions by the current DHS Board are both inconsistent with the Society’s moral responsibility to serve the entire community without discrimination and incompatible with the founding principles of the Society upon which its brand, its assets and its goodwill have been built since 1991.

With the current Society and its Board functioning under the Bylaws and the Societies Act of BC, we believe our ends are best achieved through actions to require compliance with the provisions of the Bylaws and the Act. Successful intervention by the courts can effectively hold the door open for community members to get involved and to become members and elect a Board of Directors that will be accountable to them.