Richmond families coming home from Richmond 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 City Centre and Brighouse, Steveston and Seafair, Thompson and West Richmond, and the rest of Richmond.
§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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Recovery on flat ground.
Richmond hands recovering patients one genuine advantage: the city is flat. The first careful walks (hallway, then lobby, then block) progress faster when there's no hill in the way, and our caregivers use that, building mobility back on the discharge plan's schedule. The rest is the usual discipline: medications managed, wounds monitored, meals made, and notes written so the follow-up at Richmond Hospital starts from facts.
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Post-hospital recovery in Richmond: what families ask.
Mum's surgery was at VGH, but home is Richmond. Does that work?
Yes: the recovery plan follows her home, whichever hospital wrote it. We work from the discharge summary either way, and the visits happen where she lives, not where she was treated.
What happens at the in-home assessment?
We walk the actual home (bed, bathroom, stairs if any, where the walker turns) and go through the discharge plan against it. It's how the first visit starts useful instead of introductory.
Where in Richmond we deliver.
We see Richmond families in City Centre and Brighouse, Steveston and Seafair, Thompson and West Richmond, Hamilton and East Cambie, Broadmoor and Riverdale, and Ironwood and Hamilton.
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
