Searching for Hospice / Palliative Care

Provides nursing care and personal support care

• PSW level or Nursing level geriatric trained staff are certified to provide care to clients with Acquired Brain Injury and to clients with Dementia
• Nursing Care Services include:
  • palliative care
  • pediatric care
  • wound care
  • mental health care
  • post-operative care
  • medication management
  • health teaching including wound and stoma therapy advice and Nurse Continence Advisor services
  • physical, mental health and mobility assessments
  • medication and nutrition review
• Personal Support Care services include:
  • light housekeeping
  • meal preparation
  • personal care
  • friendly visiting
  • companionship and accompaniment to appointments
  • respite care
• FALLS PREVENTION:
  • Fall prevention assessments in the client's home
  • Member of Simcoe Muskoka Integrated Fall Strategy (SMIFS)

Health care staffing provider; provides healthcare professionals and services to families and facilities

Provider of medical and non-medical healthcare personal support services

• staff available include Personal Support Workers, Registered Nurses and Practical Nurses, Social Support workers, Child and Youth workers, Addictions workers, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists
• Services include:
  • Personal support
  • Care for the elderly
  • Care and support for individuals with special needs
  • Care and support for ABI (Acquired Brain Injury)
  • Escort service to medical appointments etc
  • Companionship and bed-side assist
  • Nursing
  • Home Keeping
  • End of life care
  • Child care support
  • Terminal illness support
  • Medication administration
  • Foot Care
  • Therapy services
  • Caregiver relief
  • Live-in caregivers
  • Assisted grocery shopping
  • Assisted appointment escorts
  • IFHP - Interim Federal Health Program

Diverse, personalized support in home. Customized care plan to meet individuals needs.

Services include:

• house cleaning
• laundry
• grocery shopping
• meal preparation
• medication reminders
• personal care
• bathing, dressing
• escorting to appointments, errands

Nursing services include:

• foot care
• RPN, RN
• End of Life care

Patients who require injection or infusion services can access the Bayshore community infusion clinic with a physician's referral.

Home health care services include:

• Nursing Care
• Caregiver Relief
• Mother and Baby Care
• Pediatric Care
• Elder Care
• Mental Health Care
• Palliative Care
• ET Nurse
• Continence Advisor
• Post-Operative Care
• Chronic Disease Management Education
• Personal Support Services such as Companionship, Dementia Care, Physiotherapy and Exercise Programs
• Falls Prevention
  • Falls risk assessments, work with clients to further reduce the risk of a fall by providing:
  • Nurses and PSW workers to manage and educate clients on individual medical risk factors such as Diabetes, advanced foot care and bladder and bowel incontinence
  • Visiting nursing to monitor medications use
  • Product advice and help with product use, including assessments for assistive devices

In-home visiting provided by trained volunteers who address the social, emotional, spiritual and practical needs of both people with a life-limiting illness and their family members

Examples of support include:

• Care for the caregiver
• Support with legacy work/activities
• Social, emotional companionship
• Working together on hobbies and interests

Retirement and Enhanced Care Assisted Living residence for Older Adults

• Transitional home for residents waiting for their long term care placement
• accommodation options include private, semi-private or ward
• residence includes 2 lounges, dining room, bathing rooms, non-denominational chapel/reflection room, recreation room, TV room, emergency call bells, sprinklers in all rooms, security system
• Services include:
  • all meals/snacks, a full activities and fitness program, housekeeping
  • 24 hr nursing supervision, visiting doctor, special diets and medication administration
  • palliative care/end of life care when needed
  • mechanical lift
  • beauty salon/aesthetic services, foot care nurse

10 bed residential hospice provides care to individuals who are end-of-life and supports their families in a home-like caring environment

• spacious private rooms enable family members to stay together
• pain and symptom management
• staffed twenty-four hours a day by a professional palliative care team and trained compassionate volunteers

Volunteer based organization, providing client centered support for those living with a life limiting illness or grieving the loss of a loved one

• Services for clients, caregiver(s), and family members address physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs
• Services include:
  • Residential Hospice
  • In-home Visiting
  • Bereavement Support
  • Care for Caregivers
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support
  • Day Programs
  • Children & Youth Support

Private home health care, specializing in medical and non-medical supports allowing seniors and disabled adults to live comfortably and independently.

Services include but not limited to:

• Personal Support Worker services
• Nursing services - LPN, RPN, RN
• Alzheimer's disease and dementia care
• companionship
• light housekeeping
• respite care
• transportation
• meal preparation

Homecare and nursing services

• Registered Nursing Services
  • Motor Vehicle Accident Care
  • Complex Care/ Catastrophic Injury Care
  • Spinal Cord Injury Care
• Home Support Services
  • Homemaking - meal prep and light housekeeping
  • Personal Care Services
  • Companionship
  • Respite Care
• Child Care Relief
• Foot Care Services
• Palliative Care
• Home and Vehicle modifications
• Medical Equipment Sales/Rentals, a registered ADP vendor
• minimum of 3 hours per visit

Private senior in-home care services

• offer specialized Alzheimer's, post-stroke, Parkinson's and dementia respite and live-in home care
• provide non-medical home care, services include:
  • Healthy meal prep
  • Exercise
  • Companionship
  • Light housekeeping
  • Personal Support Worker
  • Respite care services
  • Hospital to home care
  • Transportation for medical appointments and running errands
  • Cognitive Therapeutics - Mind Fit Program to exercise the brain

An organization that

• assists people who are faced with a life-threatening illness by providing non-medical support
• emphasizing an invitation to the abundant life in Jesus Christ as an enhancement to professional palliative medical care
• trained volunteers give spiritual, emotional and practical support to the patient and their family members
• assist the medical professionals who provide end of life care
• family counseling
• marital counseling

Support for people and family members dealing with a life-threatening illness * bereavement support for anyone who has experienced the death of someone close * referral to other community services

Personal Support Services offering:

• Companionship
• Light housekeeping and laundry
• Personal Care Meal preparation
• Assistance with activities of daily living
• Transportation and accompaniment to medical appointments
• Palliative/End of Life care
• Certified and Insured Experienced staff
• Free care management
• No long term contracts

Contact for free in-home assessment and a custom built care plan

Family health care services delivered by nurse practitioners and team of health care professionals

Services are by pre-booked appointments only and are for registered patients only; no walk-in services

Clinic Services

• chronic disease management (such as diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure),
• prenatal care, healthy baby and pediatrics, Infant/Child CPR
• diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses, infections and injuries
• cancer screening
• laboratory services
• immunizations
• palliative care
• counselling
• nutrition and health promotion, Summer Cooking Camp
• physiotherapy
• pharmacist

Smoking Cessation

• individual assessment, counselling and coaching to quit smoking
• prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapies and cessation medications
• motivational interventions
• referral to community resources
• referral to Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients (STOP) Program, which includes free nicotine replacements and counselling (advance registration required)

Diabetes Conversations -- group program includes four weekly sessions

Healthy You Program -- 10 week program includes practical information on healthy eating, physical activity and emotional health; includes tools to help maintain healthy lifestyle

Mindful Eating Group

Healthy Kidneys Program

Residential and Community Hospice providing a supportive environment for end-of-life clients and their families. Care provided by professional staff health team and specially trained volunteers.

Residential Hospice:

• 10-bed Residential Hospice

Community Hospice:

• offers a variety of non-medical, physical, emotional and social support to individuals facing a life-limiting illness and their families and caregivers
• all services provided free of charge

Community Support Services:

• playing with colours
• garden club
• caregiver support
• one-on-one support
• in-home companionship
• wellness services
• child and youth support including peer and counselling
• peer support groups
• education and resources available for community, businesses and individuals

Volunteer opportunities available

Provides respite care:

• Alzheimer's support
• palliative support
• bereavement support
• home care services including:
  
  Activities of Daily Living (ADLs):
  • mobility assistance - transfers
  • dressing
  • walks
  • assistance with physiotherapy (as set out by a professional physiotherapist)
  
  Bathing Assistance:
  • tub transfers
  • washing
  • foot care (basic foot care only)
  • shaving
  • grooming
  • hair trim
  • nail filing
  
  Homemaking help:
  • laundry
  • shopping and errands
  • meal preparation
  • accompany to appointment
  • respite

Provided by a Certified Personal Support Worker (PSW) with first aid training.

Services include:

• emergency care
• diagnostic services including lab, imaging and cardio respiratory therapy
• two inpatient units (medicine and surgery)
• provides care in specialty areas including obstetrics
• orthopaedics
• intensive care
• surgery
• out-patient care including dialysis
• palliative care, maternal, child and youth programs
• wide range of clinics including mental health and rehabilitation services

Specialized regional programs include:

• Dialysis
• Level II Obstetrics
• Paediatrics and Neo-Natal Services
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Genetics
• Paediatric Diabetes Education
• Pre-school Rehabilitation
• Paediatric Oncology
• Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence
• and a variety of sub-specialty, diagnostic and clinical services which are unique in the region

Provides bereavement and paliative care resources to the community. See website for more information.

Companionship and emotional support to people and their family/caregivers dealing with a life-threatening illness. Bereavement support for anyone who has experienced the death of someone close. Services can be provided at home, long-term care homes or at the office. Also provides guest speakers.

A member of the North Simcoe Muskoka Community Support Services Coalition.

Customized services are geared to each client's specific needs from personal care and caregiver relief to transportation to appointments.

This full service nursing agency provides:

• case management
• homemaking
• meal preparation
• housekeeping
• overnight and 24 hour companions
• transportation services Ambulatory
• PSW care
• respite services
• palliative nursing care

All cases are managed by a registered nurse.

5-bed residential hospice setting providing end-of-life palliative care

Visit Mariposa House Hospice for more information

Health services provided in a home or community setting

Services may include:

• nursing care
• personal support
• foot care
• homemaking
• meal preparation
• respite care
• palliative care

Private personal support worker.

Services include:

• Respite care
• Palliative care
• Dressing, bathing, meal preparation
• Companionship, one on one supervision
• Advocate
• Errands
• Escort to appointments
• Driver

Fully insured CGL, WSIB

Clinical Nurse Consultants:

• facilitate hospice palliative care consultation, education, mentorship and linkages to hospice palliative care resources across the continuum of care
• offer consultation to service providers in person, by telephone, or email to assist with assessment and management of pain and other symptoms
• provide in home assessment for patients and 24/7 on call services
• provide case-based education and mentoring for service providers
• help build capacity among front line service providers in the delivery of hospice palliative care
• link to specialized hospice palliative care resources

Designated lead for hospice palliative care professionals in the Home and Community Care Support Services Central area