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Bringing resident choice to long-term care
Project will be tested in real time at two care villages January 10, 2023 - Providence Living is on a mission to transform seniors care into something that truly feels like home. Providence Living, in partnership with Providence Health Care, is redesigning seniors’ care in an initiative called Home for [...]
Providence Living appoints new President and CEO
Mark Blandford will apply his deep knowledge of long-term care to reinvent the system from the inside out. December 2, 2022 - Providence Living’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Mark Blandford has accepted the role as Providence Living’s new President and CEO. Mark has held senior [...]
Encouraging the “re-humanization” of long-term care
The Dutch philosophy will sit at the heart of new Home for Us care model October 28, 2022 - The Dutch care neighbourhood of De Hogeweyk in Weesp, Netherlands, has become a beacon for how seniors can live their final years, regardless of physical or psychological challenges. Here, seniors continue [...]
Canada’s second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
A message from Harmony Johnson, Vice President, Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation Today Canada marks the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. September 30th has been observed as Orange Shirt Day since 2013, and will continue to be a time to commemorate the history of residential schools in Canada, and [...]
Setting a new benchmark for long-term care
New Comox, BC care village will give residents freedom to choose, move and connect. June 14, 2022 - A new kind of long-term care is coming to Comox and none too soon for the residents and families who are watching Providence Living Place, Together by the Sea rise on the former [...]
Construction of seniors’ village takes another step forward
Comox care village project on schedule to open in 2024 December 14, 2021 – The next step toward building BC’s first publicly funded long-term care home based on the concepts of a dementia village took an important step forward in December with demolition of the former St. Joseph’s emergency department. [...]