Residential Care

Any facility where care is provided to three or more persons who are dependent on caregivers for continuing assistance or direction in the form of 3 or more of the following prescribed services and where the caregiver is not related by blood or marriage to the persons in care, is considered a Community Care Facility.

• Regular assistance with activities of daily living (e.g. eating, mobility, dressing, bathing)
• Storage & administration of medication or monitoring the taking of medication
• Maintenance or management of cash resources or other property of person in care
• Monitoring food intake or adherence to therapeutic diets
• Structure behaviour management and intervention
• Psychosocial or intensive physical rehabilitative therapy

Residential care includes:

• Child and Youth Residential
• Hospice
• Long Term Care
• Mental Health and Substance Use
• Acquired Injury
• Community Living

Facilities are inspected regularly to ensure compliance with the Community Care and Assisted Living Act and regulations to determine if minimum health and safety standards are being followed with respect to policies, staffing, resident care, building requirements and others. In addition, follow up is done in response to complaints, allegations of abuse, and reportable incidents.