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COVID-19 Update:
Due to COVID restrictions, support is being provided virtually, either by phone or via ZOOM. As restrictions lift, we will slowly begin to offer face to face support safely.

Offering peer based bereavement support for children, teens and adults. Hospice volunteers also available to support individuals living with a life-limiting illness as well as support for caregivers

Formerly the South West Community Care Access Centre (CCAC)

Health care coordination service * coordinates a wide range of in-home services to eligible clients * care coordination, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, social work, personal support * supportive care team for palliative and cancer care * elder abuse * nutritional counseling, speech language pathology and medical supplies and equipment * provides placement in long-term care facilities and respite care * facilitate application to residential hospice * assessments for government funded day away programs and supportive housing services * home and school health services for children with special needs * Care Coordinators determine eligibility for drug coverage under the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) Plan

Sakura House is a Residential Hospice providing exceptional pain and symptom management and spiritual, emotional and psychological support to individuals and their family circle in the last 3 months of life * 10 bedroom residential hospice * 24 hour End-of-Life Care for people who can no longer manage in their own homes * palliative care physicians, RNs, RPNs and PSWs * volunteer, social work and pastoral care support * grief and bereavement support - 1:1 or groups

For family, individual and group grief support contact Anne-Marie Wallace-Phillips 519-537-8515 ext 1018

COVID-19 Update:
Due to COVID restrictions, support is being provided virtually, either by phone or via ZOOM. As restrictions lift, we will slowly begin to offer face to face support safely.

Offering peer based bereavement support for children, teens and adults. Hospice volunteers also available to support individuals living with a life-limiting illness as well as support for caregivers

Provides access to community care, links people to a wide range of community services and supports, care coordinators work with patients/clients in community and hospital settings to determine the right care and support they require, care is delivered to the client in various community settings including home, school, residential facility and at flex clinics

Services available to eligible clients may include:

• Nursing
• Nurse practitioner
• Physiotherapy and occupational therapy
• Nutritional Counselling/Dietetics
• Speech-Language therapy
• Social work
• Personal support
• Medical supplies and equipment
• Connecting to other community support services and agencies
• Mental Health and Addiction Nurses (MHAN)

Other specialized services may include:

• Access to assisted living and supportive housing
• Access to respite care and convalescent care (short-term stays and adult day programs)
• Access to long-term care homes, rehabilitation and complex continuing care beds
• School health support services to school aged children
• Community support for people living with cancer
• Hospice Palliative Care

Information and Referral - thehealthline.ca provides online access to health care information and services in Ontario, or call the referral phone service at 310-2222 (Local Health Integration Network, Home and Community Care) - in English or 310-2272 (CASC) - in French

COVID19 Continuing to operate with IPAC protocols in place.

Provides both Nursing and Personal Support Services delivered in home and clinic locations. Delivers Rehabilitation Services including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech language pathology. A Therapist can provide an assessment of home and can provide tools that will assist while living in your home.

In-home health care services and support with an emphasis on Happier Aging * services include companionship, housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, transportation, errands, assistance with activities of daily living, medication reminders, bathing, foot care, complex nursing services, postpartum, respite and palliative care

Trained and screened volunteers offer companionship, respite care and emotional support to individuals and their family/care partners dealing with life-threatening illness. Services can be provided in private individual homes and Long-term care and Retirement Homes in Perth-East and West Perth areas primarily

Bereavement Supports includes access to monthly online support groups focusing on issues related to complicated grief and referral to appropriate services.

COVID19 Both virtual and in-services are available depending on the needs of the client/family and volunteer availability.

Mission is to provide:

• Compassionate care and support
• trained volunteers
• information and support to individuals with life limiting illness
• family support
• community awareness
• social, emotional and practical support
• bereavement support

COVID19 Call before visiting to be sure that you have the most current information regarding visitor restrictions and COVID19 protocols in place at the hospice. Hospice residence where palliative individuals, as well as their loved ones, are supported through their end-of-life journeys. Please direct volunteer inquiries to Katie Jervis, Coordinator of Volunteers

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
  

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

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

In-home health care services including nursing and personal support * services provided by nurses and personal support workers

• Alzheimer's care
  
• senior companionship
  
• personal care
  
• palliative care
  
• respite care

A full service and comprehensive cancer treatment and research centre.

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

Personalized home care

Services include:

• personal care
  
• errand services
  
• respite care
  
• appointment escorting
  
• recreational outings
  
• housekeeping
  
• laundry
  
• palliative care
  
• compassionate care
  
• extreme cleaning
  
• one-on-one visits

Supports for older adults, and adults with disabilities

• helps people remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible
  
• referral to other community services

In-home health care services including nursing and personal support

• services provided by registered nurses and personal support workers

Services include:

• complex nursing services
  
• dressing/bandage change
  
• foot care
  
• medications
  
• palliative care
  
• respite care

Hospice palliative care and support for individuals who are living with a progressive, life-limiting illness, and for their families

• 10 in-patient beds for end-of-life care
  
• weekly day wellness program
  
• individual and group grief and bereavement support
  
• supportive care outreach with an interdisciplinary team for patients at home
  
• education via individual mentorship and classroom opportunities

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

Palliative, respite and transitional health care services for those with HIV/AIDS/HCV in a home-like environment * services include case planning, social and recreational support, nutritional services, house keeping, and community coordination

Clients are admitted for a maximum of 12 months * short-term and respite stays available

Outpatient medical and diagnostic interventions and treatments

Specialty clinics and services:

• Cystic Fibrosis
• developmental follow up clinic
• Diabetes
• endocrinology
• feeding and swallowing
• gastroenterology
• gynecology
• haematology and oncology
• healthy eating and activity program
• hemophilia
• infectious disease
• nephrology
• neurology
• pharmacology
• pre-admit services
• respirology
• rheumatology
• RSV
• surgery, including neurosurgery
• transplant

Cystic Fibrosis Paediatric Clinic - Care and support to children and youth with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), and their families * multidisciplinary team includes physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, dietitians, genetics counsellors, pulmonary function technicians and pharmacists

Developmental Follow-Up Clinic - Follow-up services for infants who have been in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) who were born at less than 1250 g or at high-risk

Diabetes Clinic - Diabetes education for children and adolescents

Endocrinology Clinic - Offers services for children and adolescents with conditions that affect their endocrine system

Gastroenterology, Transplant, Hepatology and Nutrition - Medical and nutrition services for conditions involving the stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder and pancreas * liver and bowel transplants * Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic

Neurology Clinic - Provides interdisciplinary care to children with neurological conditions

Paediatric Nephrology and Hypertension - Clinical services for children with kidney disease, congenital renal abnormalities and hypertension, including:

Care and support for children and families living with life-threatening or life-limiting illness or disease * multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, child life therapists and spiritual advisors

Services include:

• pain and symptom assessment and management
• written Advance Directives
  
• connections to community palliative care agencies and services
• psychosocial support and written resources for patients, parents and siblings
  
• bereavement care
  
• assistance with creation of memories and legacy
  

Focus on relief of suffering by meeting the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the person and the family

Palliative Medicine Outpatient Clinic - Palliative outpatient clinic for oncology patients

Regional cancer centre * radiation therapy, chemotherapy and supportive care to patients and their families (social work and nutrition services)

Multiple Myeloma Support Group - Support myeloma patients and their caregivers

Look Good Feel Better - Workshop to help cope with emotional reactions to diagnosis and physical side effects of treatment

Palliative Care - Focus on relief of suffering by meeting the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the person and the family

Supportive Care - Social work, bereavement and counselling services to patients and their loved ones on an outpatient basis

Services and Programs:

• Accommodation for Out of Town Radiation/Chemotherapy Patients
• Patient and Family Resource Centre