Complex Continuing Care
The Complex Continuing Care unit is a 76-bed program designed to meet the needs of adults over 18 years of age who have complex medical and health needs that cannot be met in other facilities. Services include support for patients requiring dialysis, palliative care, complex medical regimes, management of unstable diabetes, feeding and tracheotomy care, IV and oxygen therapy.The Complex Continuing Care Unit aims to provide the highest quality of patient-centred care with an emphasis on comfort, enhancing self-esteem and self-determination to optimize physical, emotional, social, psychological and spiritual health. Emphasis is on respect and support for residents making their own healthcare decisions, with attention to safety and comfort.
Patients typically have multiple chronic or end-stage diagnoses requiring skilled intervention and monitoring. Specific care include consent and capacity, therapeutic exercise and mobility maintenance, respiratory care, pain management, therapeutic use of leisure activities to enhance health and quality of life, dealing with ethical issues relating to end-of-life decisions, communal worship for spiritual wellbeing, swallowing disorders management, and grief support.
