COMPANY OBJECTIVE

To help people maintain independence and wellbeing at home by:
- Determining needs and abilities, developing and coordinating plans of care.
- Teaching self-care and coping skills.
- Improving, maintaining or delaying loss of functional abilities.
- Promoting and supporting family and community responsibility for care.
- Supporting palliative, supportive and acute care provided by family and friends.
To facilitate appropriate use of health and social services by:
- Preventing or delaying the need for admission to long-term care facilities and assisting on discharge.
- Supporting people waiting for long-term care admission.
- Preventing the need for hospital admission, making earlier discharge from hospital possible, and reducing the frequency of re-admission.
- Helping individuals and families access needed services.
- Promoting volunteer participation.
- Educating the public about home care.
- Participating in local service planning and coordination.
To make the best use of home care resources by:
- Serving people with the greatest need first; and
- Operating economically and efficiently.
- To meet client needs and optimize client independence within the available care financial resources while working cooperatively with other community agencies, Organizations and individuals.