Victoria BC Home Care & Nursing

CommunityPlus provides personal home caregiving & nursing services to those in need across Greater Victoria and the surrounding areas.

We are Victoria’s premium provider for skilled community health services and your source for local health knowledge and advocacy.

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A home care service built for you

Compassionate personal home care & nursing services in Greater Victoria and the surrounding areas.

Local phone support 24/7
Access to online schedules & care charting for clients and family through our custom web portal
Homemaking, including help with meals and light housekeeping
Escorts for errands and appointments

Personal care, including bathing and medication administration
Live-in, overnight & 24 hour support
Condition-specific care for ALS, MS, Parkinsons and other motor neuron diseases

Committed to

Service

The CommunityPlus team provides home based Caregiving & Nursing along with Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Footcare as needed. With over 40 caregivers across the South Island we can meet the need for skilled caregiving in most areas between Sidney & Sooke and some services are available across Vancouver Island.

Quality people choose to stay with us long-term through a combination of living wages, health benefits and great admin support that translates into 90%+ retention annually.

We’re a Living Wage

Employer

We hire experienced caregivers who are passionate about what they do and provide them with the support they need to be radiant in our clients’ lives. Through our team’s passion and experience we are able to provide 1 hour to 24 hour support including overnight and live-in services with a consistent quality of caregiver and continuity of service.

We also support urgent discharge and short notice care needs, services in remote areas and complex care with challenging or specific requirements.

We’re focused on

What’s Important

Integrity
We are committed to care with compassion for our clients, their families and our caregivers.
Transparency
Clear policies and reliable communication so you know exactly how your loved one is being cared for.
Trust
We only hire career caregivers that we would place with our own family members.
Community
We strengthen and give back to our community through education and advocacy.

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Frequently Asked

Home Care Questions

Starting Care

Starting is the hardest part. We have each been struggling to define the boundaries of our personal identity and security since we were children. Many of us are highly resistant to the idea that we need “care”. There is often a fear that the caregivers coming to help us will try to change our routines and interfere with what we want to do and how we want to live.

Caregiving is about understanding a person’s routines and what makes up their personal security in order to support how they want to live, even when someone makes choices that others may not agree with. This is a trust issue and part of why continuity of the caregivers coming is so important. We take people as they are and meet them where and how they choose to live.

Service Agreements

The Service Agreement comes with no obligation to receive any service. It provides permission for us to provide the listed services when they are requested.

Agreements are often set up in advance of care needs so that when the time comes it’s a simple phone call to start.

Service Requests

Service can be requested six months away or within an hour. Ability to meet short notice requests is determined by staffing capacity and the type of service being requested.

If urgent unexpected service requests are a frequent occurrence ask us about strategies for success.

Hourly or Weekly Minimums

Our hourly minimum service is one hour, increasing in half hour increments. Services under two hours are at a higher rate due to the added difficulty of providing short visits.

Many organizations have minimums of 2 hours or even 3 hours per visit. Scheduling and staffing become easier at the three hour mark but may not provide the flexibility of service to meet client needs.

We do not require clients to have a minimum numbers of hours per week. We will provide a one hour service once a week if that is what is needed.

Some organizations require a minimum number of hours per week (ie 9 hours or more per week). This is because smaller services have zero or negative financial return.

Specific Time Requests

Specific timing is one of the primary challenges in home care. Many people want the same services at the same times. We prioritize timing on a needs basis and will discuss time flexibility of services beforehand.

Who We Hire

Our caregiving team is almost uniformly skilled and capable of providing companionship through end-of-life care with an average experience over 10 years. All are bonded and insured with regular police checks.

Living Wages

We pay a living wage with health benefits & dental. We keep our employees for the long-term with annual retention over 90%.

Caregiver Placement

Possible home caregiver placements are dictated by geographic distances and time. Then we find the best fit from those options. Good coordination means home caregivers aren’t rushed and aren’t rushing their clients in turn.

Good coordination also means the caregivers have effectively scheduled blocks of work and enough hours each week to sustain themselves without insecurity. This is a part of the secret to success for clients in home care. Meeting caregivers needs consistently allows them to focus on meeting the needs of others.

Caregiver Supervision

Caregivers are primarily supervised and supported by the Coordination Team with clinical education from the Nursing Team.

Common Interests & Language

We always seek to place home caregivers with clients who have common interests and language. We want clients and caregivers alike to feel safe and comfortable with each other. We avoid placements that create an unfriendly or unsafe work environment.

Removing Caregivers

The client or authorized family can always decide who is part of the caregiving team. We think our people are generally exceptional. We appreciate frank and honest feedback if you find otherwise.

Visit Cancellations

Visits can be cancelled with no charge by giving at least 24 hours notice. Visits without notice are charged half. Once the caregiver is on the way to the home the visit cannot be cancelled or reduced.

Travel Time

Roughly 15 minutes of each visit is allocated to the travel necessary for transit to or from your home. There is no kilometer charge for this travel.

In circumstances where people live away from population centres or during hazardous weather more time may be allocated for travel.

Documentation

Home caregivers write notes about each visit which become part of the client record. Employees write in a formalized factual narrative avoiding person opinion or conjecture.

Communication

To keep the communications consolidated and clear we ask that one family member acts as the main contact. This is usually the person with the Power of Attorney or the most local family member.

Invoices

Invoices are sent out monthly and may be paid by cheque, e-transfer, credit card or bank payment through RBC.

This contrasts with other organizations sending out bi-monthly or bi-weekly invoices.

Receipts

There are no monthly receipts or paper anything. One receipt is sent out annually with all services for ease of accounting.

Possible & Unforeseen

We operate in terms of the possible. If someone wants a 1 hour a day service in Tofino the question is not can we provide it but do the means allow for the additional travel cost. This would be from the nearest geography where we can assemble a team to provide reasonable certainty of stable and continuous service. If it costs an additional 8 hours of travel to provide a 1 hour service on site most people would have a hard time not seeking a more efficient approach to care delivery. We are happy to suggest potential alternatives or supplements.

We are willing to take on challenging to provide services that may be delicately staffed but staffing circumstances can change. When what is possible changes due to employee relocation, injury, absence or other reasons it is important to have a back up plan for gaps or replacement of service. When the unforeseen occurs the notice we have can be quite short.

In more densely populated areas it is more viable to maintain continuous service in the face of exceptional circumstances. As services become shorter in duration and more remote from population centers the team continuity is often exceptional due to the limited options available in remote geography but the ability to provide stable service, more delicate and easily broken.

The Company

Creating security for the vulnerable since 2017

2007 to 2016
• Owner worked in local home care for government and a private national agency

• Caregiver, Coordinator, Coordination Educator, Operations & HR Manager
2016
• A year spent creating business systems to automate admin and prepare for scaling

• The first design iterations of our home care software take shape
2017
• We begin providing service as Community Care Home Health

• Our organization started the year with 2 people and ended it with more than 12
2018
• Our organization started the year with over 12 and ended with more than 24 people

• We incorporated as Community Plus Care Ltd

• Home care software programming commences
2019
• Our organization started the year with over 24 and ended with more than 36 people

• Nursing services added

• Free magnetic fridge envelopes become available – My911 Kits
2020
COVID Y1
• Our organization started and ended a challenging year with over 36 people

• Footcare, Occupational & Physical Therapy services added

• Donated $5500 in free driving to cancer patience when volunteer drivers could not operate
2021
COVID Y2
• Our organization grows to over 50+ employees

• Daily Phone Call services added

• We begin using our home care software in alpha
2022
COVID Y3
• We continue providing community services across circumstances and geography with unmatched effectiveness.

• Our software allows us many unique advantages and efficiencies over other services.

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What’s Important

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