Home Care Nursing
Home Care Nursing, or Community Nursing, is professional services, delivered to eligible clients in the community by registered nurses. Nursing care is available on a non-emergency basis for British Columbians requiring acute, chronic, palliative or rehabilitative support.
Case Management
Case Managers act as coordinators to help eligible clients obtain Home and Community Care services. They determine the nature, intensity and duration of services that would best meet clients’ needs and arrange their services.
The Case Manager will stay in touch with the client to arrange care services and make any adjustments necessary in the event their care needs change.
Community Rehabilitation (Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy)
Community Rehabilitation is a professional service, delivered to eligible clients in the community by rehabilitation therapists who provide assessment and treatment to ensure a client’s home is suitably arranged for their needs and safety.
Home Support
Home Support services are designed to help eligible clients remain independent and in their own home as long as possible. Home Support provides personal assistance with daily activities, such as bathing, dressing and grooming. Home Support services complement and supplement, but do not replace the efforts of individuals to care for themselves with the assistance of family
Choice in Supports for Independent Living (CSIL)
CSIL is an alternative option for eligible home support clients. CSIL was developed to give British Columbians with disabilties and high-intensity care needs more flexibility in managing their home support services. CSIL is a “self-managed model of care.” Clients receive funds directly for the purchase of home support services. They assume full responsibility for the management, coordination and financial accountability of their services, including recruiting, hiring, training, scheduling and supervising home support workers.
Health Services for Community Living (HSCL)
The HSCL program provides non-emergency nursing, rehabilitation, dietary and dental hygiene services to adults who live in the community and have a developmental disability and are eligible for services under Community Living British Columbia (CLBC).
Community Living BC provides support and services to people with developmental disabilities and their families. For more information, visit the
Community Living British Columbia website.
Adult Day Programs
Adult day programs assist seniors and adults with disabilities to continue to live in their own homes by providing supportive group programs and health services that assist with daily activities of living and give clients a chance to be more involved in their community.
Home Oxygen
Oxygen is considered a drug and must be prescribed by a physician. Home oxygen is subsidized through Northern Health to those that qualify based on medical and non medical criteria. Referral is through your family physician.
In order to obtain funding for home oxygen, a primary care physician will complete an application with an oxygen prescription and submit to Community Respiratory Services.
Lifeline
Lifeline is an easy-to-use medical alarm service designed to reduce the risk of living alone. In the event of a fall emergency, help is available at the touch of a button. The Lifeline Personal Help Button connects you to a trained Personal Response Associate who can send help quickly – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For more information, contact the NH Lifeline office at 250-565-7498, or toll free at 1-800-851-0184.
Hospice Palliative Care
The Hospice Palliative Care program (HPC) is a core service provided to all patients and their families within Northern Health. Registration of the patient with the HPC program is required in order to access identified services and ensure timely access to HPC. Registration requires written confirmation, by a physician, that the patient meets the palliative care status criteria as outlined in the program.
Northern Health also offers access to publicly subsidized hospice palliative care beds in a number of our residential care facilities.
Your health care team will ensure that you have the knowledge and the understanding of your situation to enable you to make informed decisions.
Learn more about our End-of-Life care and publicly subsidized hospice palliative care beds in residential care sites, available at our
End-of-Life Care page.
Acquired Brain Injury
Acquired Brain Injury is damage to the brain, which occurs after birth and is not related to a congenital or degenerative disease (World Health Organization, Geneva 1996).
In Northern Health, Home and Community Care works in partnership with the Mental Health and Additions program to provide services to clients with a brain injury.
For more information on how to access services through Mental Health and Addictions, visit our
Mental Health & Addictions site, or contact the Program Coordinator, Acquired Brain Injury Program, at (250) 565-7473 (in Prince George).
More information about Acquired Brain Injury can be found at: