Complex care in Delta usually starts with a discharge from Delta Hospital: an IV, a wound vac, a feeding tube, sometimes a trach. Salve's HCP-licensed clinical team covers Tsawwassen and Beach Grove, Ladner and Ladner Village, North Delta and Sunshine Hills and the rest of the city, with most procedures performed by a Registered Nurse and personal-care continuing alongside.
§IV therapy at home: IV antibiotics, IV hydration, PICC line dressing changes and flushes (with physician order), central line maintenance, using the client's hospital-issued or prescribed pump
§Tube feeding and PEG / G-tube management: feeding, site care, basic clog troubleshooting in collaboration with family; complex issues like tube replacement coordinated with the clinic or hospital
§Tracheostomy care: suctioning, airway maintenance, routine trach care alongside the respiratory therapist. We don't manage ventilator settings; that stays with the RT.
§Palliative nursing: pain and symptom management, comfort, family support (distinct from formal hospice, which runs under a separate BC framework)
§Oxygen, BiPAP and CPAP support, suctioning, compression therapy, mechanical-lift transfers
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Who it's for
Families whose loved one is being discharged from hospital with a complex plan (wounds, tubes, infusions, equipment), or whose ongoing condition has grown beyond what personal care alone can hold. Often arranged in coordination with a hospital social worker and the family's medical team.
Hours and schedule
Frequency depends on the plan. Some clients need a daily skilled-nursing visit, some weekly, some on a flexible schedule that wraps around personal care. Caregiver-led shifts have a four-hour minimum; standalone RN visits (a short, specific clinical task: wound change, IV flush, injection) can be as short as one hour. Days, evenings, overnights, and around-the-clock multi-shift coverage all available.
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The equipment comes home too.
Delta Hospital is a community hospital, so complex cases tend to come home from somewhere bigger, with a PICC line, a wound vac, an ostomy that's new to everyone in the house. Our RNs own the clinical side: IV therapy on the prescribed pump, wound care, catheter and ostomy management, tube feeding, injections. Caregivers steady the daily routine around it, and the documentation goes back to the physicians who wrote the plan, visit by visit.
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Complex care in Delta: what families ask.
Ostomy care is new to us. How much do you take on?
The clinical management (colostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy care is on our RN-performed list), plus the teaching-by-doing that makes the family comfortable around it. Nobody learns this overnight, and nobody has to.
Who sets up the home equipment?
Suppliers deliver and set up; we coordinate timing so the RN's first visit comes after the equipment does, and we flag anything that arrives wrong before it becomes a problem.
Where in Delta we deliver.
We see Delta families in Tsawwassen and Beach Grove, Ladner and Ladner Village, North Delta and Sunshine Hills, and Annieville and Nordel.
What it costs, and how families pay for it (extended health, VAC, CSIL,
and more), is laid out in costs and coverage. The people behind the visits are here: meet our caregivers.
BCCPA-member agencyBC HCP-licensed (Health Care Professionals & Services)WorkSafeBC registeredICBC-certified Personal Care Assistance providerFully insured & bonded caregiversBLS-certified, First Aid trained15+ years caring for BC families since 2011
