West Vancouver families coming home from Lions Gate 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 Ambleside and Hollyburn, Dundarave and West Bay, British Properties and Chartwell, and the rest of West Vancouver.
§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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A quiet recovery, properly run.
West Vancouver recoveries happen in houses with room to recover, and distances inside them that a discharge plan never anticipates: the bedroom a staircase and a hallway from the kitchen, the driveway a walk in itself. We organize the first weeks like a small operation: medications and wound care on schedule, mobility expanding room by room, the household kept running quietly underneath. Family abroad or downtown get the same disciplined notes after every visit.
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Post-hospital recovery in West Vancouver: what families ask.
Most of the family is overseas. Can this still be managed well?
Yes: it's a common West Vancouver arrangement. One local point of contact if you have one, written notes after every visit either way, and a call when something needs more than writing. Distance changes the medium, not the standard.
Can coverage run all day during the first weeks?
Yes. Days, evenings, overnights, or full 24-hour care are all available while the recovery is fragile, tapering as strength returns.
Where in West Vancouver we deliver.
We see West Vancouver families in Ambleside and Hollyburn, Dundarave and West Bay, British Properties and Chartwell, Sandy Cove and Caulfeild, and Horseshoe Bay and Eagle Harbour.
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
