New Westminster families coming home from Royal Columbian Hospital usually need the same thing the first week: someone to follow the discharge plan when family can't be there all day. Salve covers that across Queens Park and Uptown, Sapperton and McBride, Downtown and Quayside, and the rest of New Westminster.
§Wound care: dressing changes, infection monitoring, and coordination with the medical team
§Mobility support, transfers, and fall prevention
§Help with bathing, dressing, and the small things that get hard after surgery
§Light meal prep and grocery support during recovery
§Written notes for family and the next medical visit
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Who it's for
Families whose loved one is coming home after surgery, a hospital stay, or a fall. With registered nurses on the team and a BC HCP license, we cover both the personal-care and the clinical sides of recovery: wound care, infusions, medication management, the lot.
Hours and schedule
Most families start with daily visits in the first week, then taper. Four-hour minimum per visit. Days, evenings, overnights, or 24-hour care depending on what the recovery calls for.
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After Royal Columbian, the real work.
Royal Columbian handles the region's serious cases, which means New West recoveries often start further back: cardiac events, major surgery, trauma. The discharge plans are correspondingly dense (drains, staged medications, wound regimes), and our caregivers follow them line by line, with RN visits folded in where the plan crosses into clinical work. The setting is the other half: heritage homes whose narrow stairs become part of the mobility plan, not an afterthought.
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Post-hospital recovery in New Westminster: what families ask.
Should we rent a hospital bed for the main floor?
Often yes, for the first weeks, and the in-home assessment will say so plainly if the staircase makes upstairs recovery unsafe for now. We'd rather suggest the unglamorous fix early than manage the consequence later.
Do you coordinate with Royal Columbian's discharge team?
Yes. We work from the discharge summary, communicate with the hospital's social workers or community-care nurses where it helps, and the family doctor's orders carry the plan from there.
Where in New Westminster we deliver.
We see New Westminster families in Queens Park and Uptown, Sapperton and McBride, Downtown and Quayside, West End and Glenbrooke, Connaught Heights and Massey Heights, and Queensborough and Port Royal.
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
