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Teletypewriter (TTY) relay service

• numbers that helps the hearing community to communicate on the telephone with the hearing impaired
• confidential relay operator service ensures telephone access for those using or contacting someone who uses a TDD/TTY
• incoming calls must be placed from Canada but can be relayed to anywhere in the world
• long-distance charges do apply

Organization of parents and professionals who believe that most hearing impaired children can acquire almost normal language skills.

Promotes early identification of hearing loss

• early use of hearing aids or cochlear implants
• intensive auditory-verbal therapy
• emotional support
• publishes newsletters
• holds workshops
• operates book/video libraries and advocates for hearing impaired children in the school system
• many family get-togethers

Encourages participation in the sport of wheelchair basketball throughout eastern Ontario and western Quebec.

• competitive and recreational basketball programs according to needs and interests of members
• actively pursues involvement with the community to promote familiarization with wheelchair sports and to educate the public about the abilities and capabilities of persons with a disability
• supports competitive team, The Royals, as well as a recreational league and a junior program in the city of Ottawa

Consumer-based organization by and for Canadians who are hard of hearing

• promotes the development of social, educational and employment environments
• lobbies for accessibility
• strives for mandatory standards for hearing aids
• seeks to guarantee the availability of specialized technical aids
• public awareness programs
• self-help for people who are hard of hearing

Service providing 9-1-1 call centres with the ability to converse with a deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or speech impaired (DHHSI) person during an emergency, using text messaging * when registered individuals dial 9-1-1, the call taker will receive an indicator to communicate with the individual through text messages.

• text messages should be brief and concise
• abbreviations and slang should never be used
• service should only be used for emergency situations that require a response from police, fire, or emergency medical services

Supported living programs offered throughout Ottawa's residences

• supports resident's activities of daily living based on their abilities and specific needs

Community support program

Healthcare recruiting and staffing services

• offers nursing and support services to individuals in their homes, in retirement homes, in hospital, and in long-term care facilities

Services offered:

• home care
• palliative care
• pre and post surgical care
• geriatric care
• companions
• private care
• respite care
• acquired brain injury care
• pediatric care
• Alzheimer patient care
• escorts for appointments via Para Transpo or Taxi

Professionals include:

• registered nurses
• registered practical nurses
• personal support workers
• homemakers
• companions/escorts/sitters

Government of Canada's agency responsible for funding health research in Canada

Consists of 13 virtual institutes that bring together all partners in the research process - the people who fund research, those who carry it out and those who use its results - to share ideas and focus on what Canadians need: good health and the means to prevent disease and fight it when it happens

Details and contact information for each institute is available through the website under Institutes;

• Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health
• Institute of Aging
• Institute of Cancer Research
• Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
• Institute of Gender and Health
• Institute of Genetics
• Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
• Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health
• Institute of Infection and Immunity
• Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis
• Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
• Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
• Institute of Population and Public Health

Customized, nurse-managed home care

• no contracts required
• nursing care
• personal care
• home support
• companion care
• foot care
• live-in care
• Alzheimer's care
• dementia care
• stroke care
• Parkinson's care
• palliative care
• respite care

Volunteer support services for vulnerable older adults of the Ottawa-Gatineau arts community

• pursues affordable housing solutions
• referrals
• advocacy
• learning events on topics of concerns to older adults of the arts community

Supporting Cast: corps of trained volunteers who assist artists in need with the tasks of daily living

Long term goal is to create a centre for arts professional that will provide housing and other amenities such as a studio, and a rehearsal and performance space

Social enterprise offering personalized care by connecting individuals with caregivers, nurses and therapists

Caregivers can provide:

• caregiving
• case management
• nursing
• psychology
• occupational therapy
• physiotherapy
• massage therapy
• behaviour therapy
• ABA therapy
• social work
• speech therapy
• yoga therapy
• tutoring

Add-on services:

• transportation
• housekeeping
• assessments

Delivers services, support and advocacy for and with people with spinal cord injury

Regional services:

• staff members provide practical help, advocacy and assistance from injury right through rehabilitation and into the community

Connect Peer Program:

• matches people who are newly injured, and their family members, to people who have lived experience with a spinal cord injury

Cortree Disability Education Centre:

• online learning platform for people with SCI and other physical disabilities and their families
• information on relevant topics around living with a disability
• available for professionals

Long-term care residence

• 71-bed
• bilingual

Services

• 24-hour-a-day nursing
• medical services
• personalized care
• banking services
• housekeeping, maintenance and laundry
• recreational and therapeutic programs
• dietetics
• pharmaceutical services
• physiotherapy
• spiritual care
• volunteer services
• specialized services such as dental care, optometry and chiropody services, as well as laboratory and radiology

Amenities

• downtown living: shopping, theatres, art galleries, restaurants

Élisabeth Bruyère Residence amenities

• activity room
• cafeteria
• chapel and multi-faith prayer room
• community pharmacy
• boutique
• free videos
• hairdressing salon
• indoor, glass-enclosed garden providing a breath-taking view of Ottawa
• library
• outdoor seating and picnic area
• rooftop garden (seasonal)

Inpatient and outpatient assessment and rehabilitation care

• improves the patient's daily functional abilities through assessment and treatment of physical, cognitive, medical and social issues

Specific programs include:

• stroke rehabilitation
• Care of the Elderly
• physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic
• ambulatory stroke rehabilitation service
• geriatric rehabilitation (see separate record for details)
• The John and Jennifer Ruddy Geriatric Day Hospital (see separate record for details)

Hospital

• offers stroke and geriatric rehabilitation
• Canada's largest academic palliative care unit

Services

• stroke clinic
• family medicine centre
• memory program
• diagnostic imaging and ultrasound services
• geriatric assessment outreach team
• John and Jennifer Ruddy Geriatric Day Hospital
• outpatient stroke physiotherapy clinic
• palliative care
• photoderm clinic
• physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic
• Psychogeriatric Community Services of Ottawa-Carleton
• regional palliative care consultation team
• rehabilitation

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

Federally chartered, national consumer and advocacy organization for the blind or visually impaired

• nation-wide association
• assists and enhances the efforts of individuals who are blind or vision impaired
• aids in regaining self-confidence, self-esteem, and independence

Promotes:

• equality for Canada's blind and visually impaired
• their integration in the sighted population
• recreational and social activities
• equal treatment of the blind and visually impaired in a free and democratic society without limitation or discrimination

Monitors and assesses the services provided by the service delivery agencies

• ensures quality of service throughout Canada
• development of technology training programs
• Peer-driven Get Together with Technology program where those with vision loss coach others with vision loss on how to use various kinds of technology

Provide meaningful computer-based skills development opportunities for adults with multiple disabilities.

Ensure that individuals with complex care needs are provided with opportunities to engage with new technologies in environments that are fully accessible

Offer personal care, adaptive/assistive software and hardware and compassionate support staff.

Housing with attendants offering support services to people with physical disabilities

Housing and Attendant Services for persons living with a physical disability

• 24 hour service for seniors in the community (Assisted Living Services Program - ALS-HRS)

Adult upgrading including reading, writing, numeracy, digital, communication

• offers a Deaf Adult upgrading program as well, language of instruction is ASL
• helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence

Through participating non-profit agencies, provides:

• health services
• accessible housing support
• transitional living support
• in-home support

Supportive housing

• non-medical assistance in one of several accessible apartments, integrated throughout larger apartment buildings
• six different locations
• geared to persons with physical disabilities who require a minimum of two hours of attendant care services per day that cannot be met on a visiting basis