Searching for Hospice / Palliative Care

COVID-19 (19 October 2021): Due to COVID19, several changes to services offered. Hospice residence remains open with safety precautions, continuing to admit screened patients at low risk of COVID19. Community programs, volunteer services, day hospice program, in-home support and bereavement programs are cancelled. Coordinators will continue to check in with clients by phone and email and provide support virtually.


Companionship, respite care, and emotional support

Home Support Program:

• initial visit by a community nurse for assessment and referral
• volunteer visiting for companionship and practical support
• respite for families up to four hours per week
• telephone support
• caregiver support

Day Hospice Program:

• weekly social interaction with peers
• variety of activities including art, cads, board games, music
• emotional support
• respite for caregivers
• weekly nurse assessments and communication with physicians as needed

Hospice Residential Care Program: 24 hour residential care in a home-like and peaceful setting when being at home is no longer possible

Family Support Program:

• helps family members and friends care for someone diagnosed with a life-threatening illness
• bereavement follow-up available
• individual basis or in group settings for adults, youth and children

Bereavement Support:

• support through the grieving process by staff and trained volunteers
• drop-in groups
• partner/spousal support groups
• retreats
• group walks
• counselling
• information and referral

Private health care service

• registered nurses, registered practical nurses
• health care aides, companion aides
• home support workers
• personal support workers

Services:

• nursing services
• home support
• home making
• meal preparation
• companions/sitters
• personal care
• accompaniment to appointments or shopping
• infant and child care services
• respite care
• foot care
• house cleaning

Home and personal care services

• companionship and support for seniors
• personal care (including incontinence care)
• respite care
• palliative care
• nursing care

Elderly care that improves the quality of life of seniors and adults who need assistance with the activities of daily living

In Home Care

• 24-hour home care

Interactive Caregiving

• keep clients active on social, mental as well as physical level, thus encouraging healthier living

Respite Care

• provide relief from family caregiving duties for all ages

Dementia and Alzheimer's Care

• provide care to seniors with Dementia or Alzheimer's to increase their quality of lives and help them live as independently as possible

End of Life Care

• caregivers will assist during the final stages of life and make this time less demanding and difficult

Transitioning Home

• help with the transition from the hospital or nursing home for a more comfortable recovery at home

Transportation

• assist clients to locate transportation service that works with their care plan to attend Doctor's appointments, medical tests, wellness visits

Escorted Transportation Services

• caregivers can arrange transportation for errands, social appointments, shopping and more

Companionship and home helper company

• assistance with household chores
• elderly companionship and conversation
• meal preparation
• stimulation of mental awareness, games and book reading
• letter writing and correspondence
• shopping, appointments, outings and trips
• medication reminders
• wheelchair and walker transfers
• bath set-up
• consistent and reliable communication with family members

Nursing and Personal Support Services to individuals, families, hospitals and long-term care facilities

Services include:

• registered nurses
• registered practical nurses
• personal support workers
• companions
• flu clinics
• palliative care
• wound care
• pediatric care
• private nursing services
• personal support services
• personal care
• homemaking services
• companion services
• advanced foot care
• health monitoring
• medication administration
• health information sessions
• nursing in-home services
• nursing in nursing clinic setting
• CPR training

Consultation service offered to patients with a life-limiting illness that requires a specialist to assist with pain and symptom management

• the team is comprised of two palliative care nurses and one palliative care physicians
• palliative care service only provided to admitted inpatients of the hospital

Private home health care provider

• services clients in their homes, in long-term care facilities, in hospitals and in retirement homes, for both short or long-term support
• trained, qualified and professional staff

Services:

• private nursing
• palliative care
• foot care
• family relief
• paediatrics
• spinal cord injury
• Mutiple Sclerosis (MS) education
• health education
• home management
• light housekeeping
• meal preparation
• personal care
• laundry
• shopping
• pre and post-op care
• diabetic education
• acquired brain injury
• home health care
• infusion clinic
• flu clinics
• public education sessions

Community based healthcare agency providing in home healthcare and support.

• In-home nursing and personal support based on your needs
• In-home foot care and facility based foot care services for retirement homes and long-term care homes
• Caregiver respite
• Palliative Care
• Post-hospital discharge care to assist with the transition home
• Medication administration
• Wound care and assistance with treatment
• Accompaniment to appointments
• Healthcare navigation
• Dementia care

Chaplaincy services to clients in long term care facilities

• facilitates access to additional services for clients
• provides supportive and bereavement counselling to families and caregivers

Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses provide a broad range of services to people of all ages and diagnoses in the comfort and convenience of their own home, workplace or other community setting.

Specialty Services:

• continence management
• diabetes management
• home chemotherapy
• home infusion
• palliative care
• wound and ostomy care
• personal support services

Home care services

• companion, Personal Support Worker and Nursing with on-call support
• Blue Cross provider for Veterans
• palliative care
• Dementia/Alzheimer care: Gentle Persuasion Approach (GPA) certified caregivers
• Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) home care
• post-surgery care
• diabetic care
• tube feeding
• catheter care
• wound care
• adult vista collar care
• hospital discharge accompaniment
• blood pressure monitoring
• high behavior management
• foot care
• medication supervision
• personal care
• mechanical lifts
• bowel care
• meal preparation
• grocery shopping
• house cleaning
• errands
• transportation
• doctor's appointments companionship
• mobility independence program (MIP): home rehabilitation with rented neuro gym equipment
• family-managed home attendant care
• in home respite care
• live-in caregivers

Healthcare agency providing compassionate home-based health care to individuals, their families and care providers

Services:

• client-centered care
• elder care
• palliative care
• pediatric care
• respite care
• pain and symptom management
• assist with activities of daily living
• light housekeeping
• meal preparation
• health and care related education to care provider and family

Personalized home and health care services. Care is provided by experienced and mature individuals 50 years and older

• personal support
• meal planning and preparation
• companion care
• dementia care
• hospital discharge
• palliative care
• assistance recovering from an accident
• light housekeeping
• errands
• transportation
• grocery shopping
• gardening
• yard work
• home maintenance and repairs

Private home care service that provides caregivers with specialized skills and training to serve individuals and family members looking for private care or government home care as well as organizations looking for additional staff

Services:

• nursing care by registered nurses and registered practical nurses
• personal support
• home support
• client companionship/sitter
• free and no obligation health care needs assessments
• personalized home health
• private and palliative care 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• workplace health and wellness program
• mask fit testing
• case management

Home support, personal support, attendant care services, respite care

Programs include, but are not limited to, palliative care, acute and chronic and/or progressive illness, mental illness and families in crisis

Specialized programs designed for:

• the terminally ill
• people living with Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) / Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)
• people living with Alzheimer's disease, mental illness or permanent physical disabilities

Champlain Central Application for Attendant Services:

• Central registration point where people with physical disabilities apply for attendant services across Home and Community Care Support Services.

Attendant Services:

• Administers the Attendant Care Outreach Program (ACOP) that provides attendant care services to people with permanent physical disabilities who are able to direct their own care.

Private home health care provider that services clients for short or long-term support

• in their homes
• in long-term care facilities
• in hospitals
• in retirement homes

Services:

• private nursing
• palliative, foot, personal, and home health care
• family relief
• paediatrics
• infant and child care
• intravenous therapy
• spinal cord injury
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS), diabetic, and health education
• home management
• light housekeeping and laundry
• meal preparation
• shopping
• pre and post-op care
• acquired brain injury (ABI)

Integrates and coordinates the delivery of end of life care services

• website provides information on palliative care services
• intended to help patients, families and health care partners find the right services at the right time
• professional continuing education and workshops
• practical caregiver training: workshops for unpaid caregivers of loved ones with a life-limiting illness (periodic)

Complex continuing care hospital

• offers a specialized program of care which aims to improve and maintain function for patients with complex care needs
• offers regular on-site physician/nursing care, assessment and active care management by specialized staff

Services

• specialized complex medical care: assisted ventilator care, peritoneal dialysis
• low intensity rehabilitation

Independent living facility

• retirement and assisted living
• 24 registered practical nurses on site
• palliative care
• physiotherapy assessment
• respite care

COVID-19 (26 Apr 2021): Due to COVID19, several changes to services offered. Hospice residence remains open with safety precautions, continuing to admit screened patients at low risk of COVID19. Community programs, volunteer services, day hospice program, in-home support and bereavement programs are cancelled for the time being.

Companionship, respite care, and emotional support to people and their family/caregivers dealing with a life-limiting illness

Home Support Program: Comfort and practical support through visiting volunteers

Benefits include:

• Initial visit by a community nurse for assessment and referral
• Volunteer visiting for companionship and practical support
• Respite for families up to 4 hours/week
• Telephone support
• Caregiver support

Day Hospice Program: If an individual is still able to get out of the home and can transfer with minimal assistance, the Day Hospice program can provide a day away for him/her and a break for the caregiver * offered Tue, Wed or Thu 10 am-2pm

Benefits include:

• Weekly social interaction with peers
• Variety of activities may include art, cards, board games, music, reiki and/or massage
• Emotional support
• Respite for caregivers
• Weekly nurse assessments and communication with physicians as needed

Hospice Residential Care Program: when being at home is no longer possible Hospice Care Ottawa provides 24 hour residential care in a home-like and peaceful setting

Family Support Program: helps family members and friends care for someone diagnosed with a life-threatening illness * bereavement follow-up available * individual basis or in group settings for adults, youth and children

Bereavement Support: support through the grieving process by staff and trained volunteers

Programs include:

• Drop-In Groups
• Partner/Spousal Support Groups
• Retreats
• Group Walks
• Counselling
• Information and Referral

Private health care service

• registered nurses, registered practical nurses
• health care aides, companion aides
• home support workers
• personal support workers

Services:

• nursing services
• home support
• home making
• meal preparation
• companions/sitters
• personal care
• accompaniment to appointments or shopping
• infant and child care services
• respite care
• foot care
• house cleaning

In-home nursing care

• dementia / Alzheimer's support care
• residential and hospital sitter services
• companion care services
• overnight and 24 hour live-in home care
• respite care
• short stay respite care

Provides personal assistance and support services:

• nursing and personal support services
• services in client's home as well as hospitals and long-term care facilities
• palliative care
• wound care
• homemaking services
• health monitoring
• medication administration
• health information session
• nursing in nursing clinic setting
• transportation services

Housing and support options for persons living with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

• outreach and support
• apartment program (SILP)
• volunteer supports for clients
• health and wellness programs

Full range of in-home and community health services

Services include:

• nursing
• immunization clinics
• home support
• respite care
• nutrition
• foot care
• wellness programs