Palliative Care - Central Intake - VCH
End of Life Care / Palliative Care and Home Health Care
Provided by Vancouver Coastal Health
Provides physical, emotional, social and spiritual care with the goal of providing comfort and improving quality of life for those persons who are living with or dying from advanced illness.
Care is available whether the patients are at home, in hospital, a hospice bed or a residential care facility the health care team will provide:
You must meet the Home and Community care eligibility requirements to receive services. To receive palliative care services, you must:
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- Care to help relieve symptoms such as pain, nausea, shortness of breath, fatigue, insomnia
- Information on services and care options, legal and financial matters
- Teaching for families on how to provide or assist with care
- Emotional support
- Referrals to available services, such as volunteers or counselling
You must meet the Home and Community care eligibility requirements to receive services. To receive palliative care services, you must:
- Have a life-threatening illness or be facing end of life issues
- Have a life expectancy of weeks or months rather than years
- Understand the primary goal of care/treatment is quality of life, not cure of disease
- Agree to the referral or to consultative support
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604-742-4010 (Vancouver)
Vancouver Central Intake Home and Community Care - 604-263-7377
604-892-2293 (Sea to Sky)
Includes Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and surrounding areas. Referrals will be processed in 3 business days. For more urgent referrals, please call the Intake Nurse at 604-815-6859.
604-675-3644 (Richmond)
Palliative Care Clinical Resource Nurse - 604-818-1625
For all urgent referrals can be faxed to 604-244-5264 AND require phone palliative consult physician on call.
604-741-0726 (Sunshine Coast)
Includes Sechelt, Gibsons, and surrounding areas
604-485-3310 (qathet)
Includes Saltery Bay to Lund, including Powell River and Texada Island
250-799-5311 (Bella Coola)
250-957-2314 (Bella Bella)
604-983-6740 (North Shore Palliative Care Nurse Intake)
North Shore Community Health Centre - 604-983-6700
Includes North Vancouver, West Vancouver and surrounding areas
Service is available in English.
Cost: No cost
Referral options:
- Self-referral
- Health professional referral
- Physician or nurse practitioner referral
Associated Programs/Services
Also offered by Vancouver Coastal Health:
Just the closest matches listed. Click to see more!- Home and Community Care Intake - Sea to Sky
- Home Health and Community Care Intake (VHC) - Sunshine Coast
- Home Health and Community Care Intake - North Shore
Availability
Service area: Vancouver Coastal Health Area + show cities
Service Types Provided
End of Life Care / Palliative Care
Home Health Care
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.