VICTORIA — B.C. officials announced that children requiring treatment will soon have a new first-of-its-kind children’s complex care transition facility in the province.
The government stated the project’s concept plan has officially been approved.
“The children’s complex care transition centre, operated by the BC Children’s Hospital, is an opportunity to show innovation by filling gaps in much-needed services and supports for children and young people with complex care needs and will be complementary to what is currently provided in acute care and community settings,” said Adrian Dix, minister of health, in a statement. “While other jurisdictions in Canada offer similar services through separate programs, this will be the first centre in the country to provide such a comprehensive range of supports for children with medical complexity at a single site.”
Officials explained that children needing complex care often have several different support needs that can be tough to provide from home. The complex care transition centre will serve as a stepping-stone between acute hospital care, community care and home, providing services under a new, unique model of care designed to support patients and families with the transition.
The province stated the centre’s care will be fully integrated, patient and family-centred, and provide trauma-informed care in a culturally safe environment.
The services will be available to patients up to 19 years of age and their families. The services include assessment, examination and treatment, education, training and research.
In addition, the facility’s virtual campus and provincewide community-based care network will expand the impact of the centre’s services.
The centre will be located at the current site of the Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, which is on schedule to relocate to the main campus of the BC Children’s and Women’s Hospitals at the end of August. Sunny Hill’s relocation is part of the third and final phase of the BC Children’s and BC Women’s Redevelopment Project, which also included construction of a new clinical support building and the Teck Acute Care Centre.
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