Editing Cicely Saunders (section)

==Hospice==
A year later, she began working at St Joseph's Hospice, a Catholic establishment in [[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney, East London]], where she would remain for seven years, researching pain control. There she met a second [[Polish people|Pole]], Antoni Michniewicz, a patient with whom she fell in love. His death, in 1960, coincided with the death of Saunders's father in 1961, and another friend, and put her into what she later called a state of "pathological grieving".<ref name=":1" /> But she had already decided to set up her own hospice, serving cancer patients, and said that Michniewicz's death had shown her that "as the body becomes weaker, so the spirit becomes stronger".<ref>{{cite news |title=Dame Cicely Saunders, OM |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1494039/Dame-Cicely-Saunders-OM.html |access-date=22 June 2018 |work=The Telegraph |date=15 Jul 2005}}</ref>

Saunders said that after 11 years of thinking about the project, she had drawn up a comprehensive plan and sought finance after reading Psalm 37: "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." She succeeded in engaging the support of [[Albertine Winner]], the deputy chief medical officer at the Ministry of Health at the time. Later, as Dame Albertine Winner, she served as chair of St Christopher's. In 1965, Saunders was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]].
[[File:St. Christopher's Hospice.jpg|thumb|St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, London]]
In 1967, [[St Christopher's Hospice]], the world's first purpose-built hospice, was established.<ref name=":1" /> The hospice was founded on the principles of combining teaching and clinical research, expert [[pain]] and symptom relief with [[holistic health|holistic]] care to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of its patients and those of their family and friends.<ref name=":1" /> St Christopher's Hospice was developed based on a care philosophy that "you matter because you are you, you matter to the last moment of your life",<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brignall|first=Irene|date=2003|title=You Matter To The Last Moment Of Your Life|journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal|volume=326|issue=7402|pages=1335|issn=0959-8138|jstor=25454749|doi=10.1136/bmj.326.7402.1335|pmid=12805195|pmc=1126212}}</ref> an approach requiring specialist care which led to a new medical specialty – [[palliative care]] – that could be adapted to different situations. Research shows that St Christopher's was quite different from hospitals in the 1960s, designed and managed as a "home from home" where the physical environment was important.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=West|first1=Emily|last2=Onwuteaka-Philipsen|first2=Bregje|last3=Philipsen|first3=Hans|last4=Higginson|first4=Irene J.|last5=Pasman|first5=H. R. W.|date=14 Jan 2017|title="Keep All Thee 'Til the End": Reclaiming the Lifeworld for Patients in the Hospice Setting|journal=OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying|language=en|volume=78|issue=4|pages=390–403|doi=10.1177/0030222817697040|pmid=29284311|s2cid=35472482|issn=0030-2228}}</ref> It was a place where patients could garden, write, talk – and get their hair done. There was always, Saunders would emphasize, so much more to be done, and she worked in this spirit as its medical director from 1967, and then, from 1985, as its chairperson, a post she occupied until 2000 when she became president.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://cicelysaundersinternational.org/dame-cicely-saunders/|title=Work Life|website=Cicely Saunders International|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref>

She was, however, reluctant for St Christopher's to admit patients with [[AIDS]] in the years after the syndrome first emerged. In a letter to the [[Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler|Secretary of State for Social Services]], she stated, "we have strong reservations about the use of our existing inpatient facilities for AIDS patients", explaining in a memorandum to the [[Select committee (United Kingdom)|Select Committee]] on Social Services: "A hospice ward is a very personal place, welcoming families, with their children, to be with the dying family member. Among them, I believe, there would be many who would extremely fearful of doing this if they knew AIDS patients were being admitted. However irrational, this fear is a very real matter, and would be an added burden on those facing the loss of loved ones."<ref>•	{{Cite Hansard|house=House of Commons |title=St. Christopher's Hospice |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1987-02-19/debates/a9fb2af2-53b5-4485-bdd7-c5c05e89d971/StChristopherSHospice#1150|date=February 19, 1987 |column_start=1150 |column_end=1151}}</ref>

Saunders was an Anglican. In 1977, she was awarded an honorary [[Lambeth degree|Lambeth doctorate]] by the Archbishop of Canterbury. She later was made a Dame of the [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|Order of St Gregory the Great]] (awarded by the Pope)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cicelysaundersinternational.org/dame-cicely-saunders/|title=Work Life|website=Cicely Saunders International|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-09}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/896348478 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/896347907 cite #8 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref>

In 1979, she was appointed [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE). In 1981 she was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]], the world's highest-value annual prize awarded to an individual. In 1989, she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]]. In 2001, she received the world's largest humanitarian award, the [[Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize]], on behalf of St Christopher's.

On 25 April 2005, another portrait of Saunders was unveiled at the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wocicelysaunders.asp |title=National Portrait Gallery &#124; What's on? &#124; Dame Cicely Saunders |access-date=16 July 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051214193303/http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wocicelysaunders.asp |archive-date=14 December 2005 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Saunders was one of the subjects of Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]]'s book: ''[[Courage: Eight Portraits]]''.<ref>{{Citation |last= Brown |first= Gordon |author-link= Gordon Brown |title= Courage: Eight portraits |place= London |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |year= 2007 |chapter= Cicely Saunders |isbn=978-0747565321}}</ref> She was a [[Royal College of Physicians|Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians]], a [[Royal College of Nursing|Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing]] and a [[Royal College of Surgeons of England|Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons]].

St Christopher's includes an arts team that provides art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy and community arts. The work of the arts team is reflected in two publications: ''End of Life Care: A Guide for Therapists, Artists and Arts Therapists'' and ''The Creative Arts in Palliative Care''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gXcQAgAAQBAJ&q=nigel+hartley&pg=PP1|title=End of Life Care|isbn=9780857003362|last1=Hartley|first1=Nigel|date=2013-11-21|publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AE1Z6rbii0QC&q=nigel+hartley&pg=PA4|title=The Creative Arts in Palliative Care|isbn=9781846428029|last1=Hartley|first1=Nigel|last2=Payne|first2=Malcolm|date=2008-05-15|publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers }}</ref>