St. Patrick’s Home of Ottawa offers a wide array of services to help serve our residents better.
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Care & Services
Nursing Services
St. Patrick’s Home’s nursing philosophy that each resident’s independence be maximized. Nursing staff identify individual strengths and work with each resident to enhance or maintain these strengths. Comfort, and autonomy are balanced with safety to support independence. The nursing staff support an environment that ensures privacy, dignity and maintains personal lifestyle as much as possible.
The Home has Registered Nurses (RNs), Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) and Personal Support Workers (PSWs) twenty four hours a day. These staff work with the resident and family and other members of the interdisciplinary team to assess, plan and deliver care designed to meet each resident’s specific needs.
Registered staff are responsible for daily functioning of each Resident Home Area and for medication and treatment administration. The PSW provides direct personal care such as bathing, grooming, toileting, mobility assistance and assistance with meals and other activities.
Residents will be cared for by qualified care providers of both genders and from many ethnic backgrounds.
Medical Services
Our Medical Director and 10 Attending Physicians are available to serve our residents’ medical needs. Typically, each doctor visits the Home weekly and this group of committed professionals have an on call roster twenty four hours a day.
If you wish to continue to see your own family physician, please notify the VP of Nursing prior to admission. The family physician must agree to continue in that capacity, and must sign a formal Attending Physician agreement to be available for all medical care and emergencies that may arise. You or your Substitute Decision Maker must contact your family physician prior to admission to ensure continuity of care and to ensure that s/he will provide medical services at St. Patrick’s Home in accordance with Ministry of Health standards, and Long Term Care including being available to the clinical care team.
If you wish a meeting with the St. Patrick’s Home Physician assigned to your care at any time after admission, please notify the Charge RN for your Home Area so an appointment can be scheduled.
More Services we Offer…
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Teena has recently taken on a new role as Coordinator of Quality Improvement at St. Pat’s. Teena brings with her over 25 years experience as a senior manager of community based long-term care services. Prior to joining St. Pat’s she held the position of Executive Director of The In Community, a multi service agency meeting the needs of adults living in the community with significant physical disabilities. Teena is excited to begin contributing to the ongoing successes of St. Pat's Home.
Teena Tomlinson