Brockville General Hospital’s Palliative Care Program helps patients and families who are coping with a life-limiting illness. The Palliative Care team of specialists provides compassionate care to help meet the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of you and your family, and provides comfort measures, companionship, respite and transportation.
Location
Our Palliative Care Program is located at the Charles Street main site and the Garden Street site. Palliative care also takes place in the community, such as long-term care homes, retirement homes and the homes of our patients.
Our team consists of:
- Palliative care physicians
- Palliative care consult nurses – Experienced and caring nurses who provide consultations in pain and symptom management.
- Volunteers
- Bereavement support – A service that provides support and education to bereaved families, friends and anyone whose life has been touched by death.
- Day Hospice – A weekly day program offering participants an opportunity for social interaction, therapies, recreation activities, emotional support and consultation with Palliative Care nurses.
- Clerical support
Consult nurses
Contact our hospital’s consultation nurses if you need assessment, counseling, or to consult in pain and symptom management. The nurses will work collaboratively with your primary health care team. You can reach the Coordinator of Consult Nurses at 613-345-5649 ext. 4412.
Volunteer team
If you are looking to contact our hospital’s volunteer team for comfort measures, companionship, respite, transportation or other supports in the community or hospital, please contact our Coordinator of Community Volunteers at 613-345-5649 ext. 4417.
Our volunteers are caring and passionate individuals who give their time, talent and energy to helping others in the service. They have all received a minimum of 30 hours of hospice palliative care training. We also have a dedicated team of clerical volunteers who support the team with necessary office and library work.
Bereavement support
Contact our Bereavement Coordinator at 613-345-5649 ext. 4415. Our bereavement services include trained volunteers who help with:
- Visiting and telephone support
- Weekly grief walking group
- Monthly grief and loss support group (first Wednesday of every month)
- Quarterly newsletters
- Annual ecumenical celebration of life
Day Hospice
To reach the weekly Day Hospice program, contact the Coordinator of Community Day Hospice at 613-345-5649 ext. 4417.
Community Support
The Palliative Care Program at BGH relies on the generosity of our community to sustain the programs available. Donations are gratefully accepted through the Brockville and District Hospital Foundation.
Resources
There are many resources available to help you or someone you know deal with grief and mourning.
Griefwords
Griefwords is an excellent online resource that can help you with:
- The mourning process after someone you love has died.
- Handling grief.
- Helping others handle grief, including children and teenagers.
- The importance of rituals surrounding death, such as funerals, memorials and cremation.
- Caregiving after suffering a loss.
Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society offers support services after someone you know with cancer has died.
Canadian Virtual Hospice and the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Canadian Virtual Hospice and the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association both offer support services and information on what to do when a loved one has died.
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