PROVIDENCE LIVING
Redefining Seniors’ Care
We are a faith-based non-profit health care organization established by Providence Health Care in 2017 to redefine our collective expectation of seniors’ care in British Columbia.
Providence Living was formed from a deep desire to completely rethink and reimagine the experience of seniors and others in need of care, replacing care homes with genuine communities.
Providence Living respectfully acknowledges that we provide services on the unceded traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and K’omoks nations.
ANSWERING THE CALL
Our History
More than a century ago there was a profound need for health care in Western Canada. A few answered the call, including six orders of Catholic Sisters from other parts of Canada.
Upon arriving here, they found that the need was greatest among the marginalized — racialized communities, people in poverty, people with disabilities and those unable to care for themselves. The Sisters knew that if they didn’t care for those most in need, no one would.
Today, our growing population of seniors requires our attention. While many seniors are independent and healthy, many others are in need of support. That’s why Providence Health Care, the organization founded by some of these remarkable pioneering Sisters, identified the need to create a new organization that focused solely on seniors’ care.
And, thus, Providence Living was born. Our modern-day mission is to redefine seniors care in BC.
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Latest News
Providence advances seniors’ care commitment
Planning begins for second dementia village on the site of the former St. Joseph’s Hospital in Comox, BC January 16, 2019 — Thanks to its recently announced partnership with Island Health and the Ministry of Health, Providence Residential & Community [...]
It takes a village to help people live well into old age
New care villages to be modelled on the concept of dementia villages March 1, 2018 — A Dutch model for seniors care – known as the dementia village in De Hogeweyk, Netherlands – will serve as the vision for a [...]
PRCC established to re-invent seniors’ care
New society puts long-term care on a path of revitalization and renewal June 2017 — Providence Health Care’s (PHC) visionary plan to become provincial leaders and innovators in seniors care surpassed a major milestone, with the PHC Society and Board [...]