Your primary nurse can refer you to Home Care for services like nurses, homemakers, or health care aides — and for equipment to help you manage at home. You can also contact Home Care Services directly, if you wish by calling Margaret Robinson at 787-4948.

The mandate of the Home Care program is to provide effective, reliable and responsive community health care services to support independent living.

Home Care programs include:

• Long Term Programs (more than 60 days)
• Short Term programs (less than 60 days)
• Dialysis and Ostomy (provincial-basis handled by Winnipeg)
• Community Intravenous Therapy
• Specialty services such as respiratory, children's and palliative care programs.

Home Care services include:

• Personal care
• Nursing
• Counseling/Problem Solving
• Household assistance
• Respite/Family Relief
• Occupation Therapy Assessment
• Physiotherapy Assessment
• Referral to other agencies
• Coordination of internal and external services in the community

Who is eligible for Home Care?

Individuals must be:

• a Manitoba resident
• registered with Manitoba Health
• require health services or assistance with activities of daily living
• require service to remain safely in their homes, and
• require more assistance than available from existing supports and community resources.

For more information, talk to your primary nurse or call the Home Care Intake Line at 940-2655.