Searching for Hospice / Palliative Care

Offers long term, short term, respite, vacation, convalescent, and palliative stays.
Adult day program.

Family practice and internal medicine, disease prevention and intervention, and specialty consultations when indicated. Services include:

* newborn, adolescent, adult, and older adult care

* shared prenatal care, early pregnancy care

* pediatrics

* physicals

* mental health services

* chronic disease guidance

* nutrition counselling

* pharmacist support

* immunizations and vaccinations

* minor surgery

* general dermatology

* palliative care

* work related injuries / WSIB forms

* social services forms

Services include:

• personal support services (including personal care, homemaking)
• respite shifts of care
• hospice at home
• specialized services
• nursing care

Licensed health care services include:

• nursing care (RN, RPN)
• palliative care
• physical therapy and rehab services
• dementia services and care
• homemaking and personal care services
• respite care

Services include:
• care companion - housekeeping, meal prep, shopping, errands, transportation
• personal care - support with activities of daily living plus care companion activities
• nursing - assessments, medication management, wound care, foot care
• one hour to 24-hour care
• one-to-one in-hospital, in-facility support
• palliative care specialists
• dementia specialists
• transitional support - hospital to home, long-term care
• continence products available for purchase and delivery
• services also provided in assisted living communities, nursing homes, hospitals, hospice
• care for clients with special health care needs
• Motor Vehicle Accident Support Program

Nurse managers oversee all cases, personal support, and nursing care. Focuses on the whole family and provides care for all ages. Services include support with Alzheimer's and dementia, degenerative diseases, respiratory care, specialized nursing care, cancer, brain injury and end of life care.

Personal Care:

• meal planning, preparation
• bathing, general hygiene
• dressing assistance
• medication reminder, prescription pickup
• companion service to health care appointments

Home Care:

• light housework
• laundry / change linens
• groceries, general shopping
• plant care
• assistance with phone calls

Companionship:

• play games / books on DVD
• attend events
• arrange for friends to visit
• walk outside, exercise

Facility care also available.
Qualified and experienced care for Alzheimer's and dementia, brain injury and palliative care.

Offers client specific care plan and ongoing assessments. Services include home care such as:

• personal care
• mobility assistance
• meal preparation
• light housekeeping
• laundry
• grocery shopping

Services also include:

• accompaniment to appointments
• after hospital care
• respite care and palliative care
• support for individuals with special needs

COVID-19 Update: Call prior to visiting. Visit website for program updates; virtual programs available.

Programs include support for palliative and bereavement clients:

Grief and Bereavement Support:

• Adult Grief Support Group
• Spousal Loss Support Group
• Art Therapy Programs
• Weekly Bereavement Walking Group
• Volunteer Companionship Program
• Grief and Bereavement Workshops

Palliative Support:

• Weekly Palliative Day Program
• Visiting Volunteers

Wellness Program:

• massage
• weekly yoga
• lending library
• reiki
• bereavement walking group

COVID-19 Update: Call prior to visiting. Visit website for program updates; virtual programs available.

Programs include support for palliative and bereavement clients:

Grief and Bereavement Support:

• Adult Grief Support Group
• Spousal Loss Support Group
• Art Therapy Programs
• Weekly Bereavement Walking Group
• Volunteer Companionship Program
• Grief and Bereavement Workshops

Palliative Support:

• Weekly Palliative Day Program
• Visiting Volunteers

Wellness Program:

• massage
• weekly yoga
• lending library
• reiki
• bereavement walking group

Residential hospice providing quality palliative care in a home-like setting for individuals living with - and dying from - a terminal illness.

Hospice care, residential support, respite and palliative care services for children with life-limiting or life-threatening illness requiring complex and/or technology dependent care * services can be provided at home, or in hospitals and long-term care homes

Services:

• respite care ($25 overnight stay/calendar)
• day program ($15 calendar day)
• residential care offers long term care to children who are unable to be cared for at home because of their significant medical needs
• hospice palliative care: respite, transition to home support, and end-of-life care
• therapeutic programs including music therapy, recreation therapy, pet therapy, art therapy, hydrotherapy, and multi-sensory Snoezelen therapy
• family support program offers specialized services to support the mental health and well-being of the entire family unit throughout their caregiving journey

Visitor restrictions are in place at Groves Memorial Community Hospital to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission. All visitors must be free of COVID-19 symptoms; have not have travelled outside of Canada in the previous 14 days or had contact with a sick person who has travelled; have not had close contact with a person who has/is suspected to have COVID-19; must wear a hospital-provided procedure mask during the visit; enter/exit through designated doors; adhere to infection control practices and wear the sticker identifying their successful screening process.


Patients attending the Emergency Department are limited to ONE support person.

Obstetrical patients are limited to ONE partner in care during their stay.


Patient services include:

• ambulatory care clinic
• diagnostic imaging
• diabetes education
• emergency department
• geriatric emergency management team
• hospital elder life care program
• Ontario Breast Screening Program
• obstetrics
• out-patient oncology unit
• palliative care
• physiotherapy
• pulmonary rehabilitation
• speech pathology
• surgery
• virtual family visit
• virtual patient visit

Facility offers:

* 87-bed long-term care home - residential care private rooms, semi-private rooms, and four-person basic accommodation

* 42-bed retirement home - private, semi-private accommodation

* 24-hour nursing and personal care

* access to a doctor and other health professionals



Services include:

* restorative care program

* registered dietitian

* dental and foot care clinics

* eye clinic

* physiotherapy and occupational therapy services

* social and recreational activities

* intergenerational programs



Residential care offers respite and short stays.

Nursing home offers palliative care, Alzheimer and dementia care.

Provides home care services to seniors by staff who are bonded and insured. Services include:

• Hourly or 24 hr Care for Seniors
  
• Dementia and Alzheimer's Care
  
• In-Home Stroke Care
  
• Parkinson's Care
  
• Palliative Care
  
• Post-hospital Care for Seniors

Services provided during care can include:

• Light housekeeping
  
• Meal preparation
  
• Bathing
  
• Dressing
  
• Encouragement for daily exercise
  
• Mobility assistance
  
• Transportation for errands and appointments
  
• Companionship

Residential care with private and basic rooms. Services include:

• 76 beds
• 24-hour nursing and personal care
• access to a doctor and other health professionals
• restorative care
• recreation therapy program

Programs and services include:

• pharmacy and laboratory services
• personalized plan of care with assistance of social service worker
• dementia program, specialized dementia care
• palliative care
• physiotherapy program
• oxygen therapy management
• social events and seasonal celebrations involving family participation
• music and horticulture programs
• regular outings using Wellington Terrace wheelchair accessible van
• access to Wellington County Museum and Library

Non-medical homecare agency catering exclusively to the needs of senior citizens and older adults

• Driver companions
• Live-in companions
• Overnight assistance
• House cleaners
• Drop-in companions
• Foot care services

Residential hospice providing quality palliative care in a home-like setting for individuals living with - and dying from - a terminal illness.

Individual and family grief support throughout palliative phase of illness * post-death follow-up available to link with community supports

A full service and comprehensive cancer treatment and research centre.

Private home care agency providing in-home care services for seniors * free in-home care consult * services are available at home, in an assisted living facility, a retirement home or in a long-term care home


Services include:

• personal care
• in-home nursing care
• post-operative care
• homemaking
• meal preparation
• live-in or overnight
• transportation to medical appointments and accompaniment/escort
• companionship
• 24-hour Alzheimer's and dementia care
• caregiver relief/respite care
• end-of-life care and family support - at home or in care facility

Support individuals affected by a life-threatening illness [and their families], to prepare for and cope with death by providing compassionate presence, emotional and practical support, and education

• Volunteer Visiting in home, hospital, local residential hospices, and long-term care facilities
  
• Bereavement Walking Groups (Sep-Jun in Kitchener-Waterloo)
  
• Day Away Programs in Kitchener and Cambridge
  
• Individual and Family Counseling
  
• Friends and Relatives Support Group
  
• Resource Library
  
• Hair Salon Services
  
• Complementary Therapies

Locally owned, non-franchised, independent Home Care Agency

• Services available in own home, in Retirement Homes, in Long term Care Homes, in Hospitals
  
• All services are directed and overseen by Nurse Case Managers
  
• Nursing care services
  
• Personal care services
  
• Home making services
  
• Companion care services
  
• Overnight care
  
• 24 hour care
  
• Live-in care
  
• Respite care services
  
• Medication management
  
• Transportation services
  
• Special needs including; Palliative care, Dementia care, Parkinson's care, hospital discharge, stroke recovery care and more
  

Provides a transitional level of care when a patient no longer requires the hospital acute care services * services are provided by an interdisciplinary health team for people with medically complex, nursing, and therapeutic needs * focus of the Complex Transitional Care (CTC) is to develop a plan of care that would enhance quality of life and facilitate discharge to a lighter level of care

Short Term Complex Medical Management (SCMM) - Services to increase activity tolerance and progress functioning overall

Long Term Complex Medical Management (LCMM) - Services offered over an extended period of time to maintain and/or slow the rate of patient's functional losses

Palliative Care - Symptom management and comfort care for people with a life-limiting illness

In order to be considered for admission to CTC, the care of patients must exceed the capability or provision of community services or those services found in a long-term care facility

Provides in-home care for seniors and other adults * services in private homes, seniors apartments and residences, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities * free consultation

Services include:

Personal care

• Alzheimer's and dementia care
• bathing, grooming and hygiene
• mobility assistance
• transferring and positioning
• toileting and incontinence care
• feeding and special diet
• medication reminders and assistance
• nursing care
• palliative care
• 24-hour care

Companionship

• grocery shopping and errands
• incidental transportation to appointments and events
• laundry and ironing
• homemaking, light housekeeping
• in-home meal preparation
• live-in services
• respite care

Providing staffing for facilities

• Personal Support Workers
• Register Practical Nurses
• Registered Nurses