Program | Year program started | No. of patients | Staffing, FTE |
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Programs including free-standing hospice* | |||
Canuck Place Children's Hospice/BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver | 1995 | 250 | 1.5 MD, 2.4 APN, 2.4 SW, 1.0 BC |
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario/Roger's House, Ottawa | 1999/2006† | 170 | 2.0 MD, 1.0 APN, 1.0 RN, 0.8 SW |
Alberta Children's Hospital/Rotary Flames House, Calgary | 2001/2009† | 97 | 3.4 MD, 0.8 APN 0.8 SW, 0.8 BC |
Programs based at hospital | |||
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto | 1986 | 326 | 2.16 MD, 2.0 APN, 1.8 BC |
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec, Québec | 2004 | 110 | 1.2 MD, 0.4 RN, 0.2 Psy |
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg | 2006 | 97 | 1.0 MD, 1.0 APN |
Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montréal | 1999 | 67 | 0.5 MD, 2.0 APN, 0.8 Psy |
IWK Health Centre, Halifax | 1995 | 60 | 1.5 MD, 1.0 APN, 0.5 RN |
Montréal Children's Hospital, Montréal | 1992 | 57 | 0.9 MD, 0.5 APN |
Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton | 1999 | 54 | 1.05 MD, 0.8 RN, 0.8 BC |
Children's Hospital London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario | 2008 | 52 | 1.0 APN |
Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon | 2011 | 51 | 0.3 MD |
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec | 2004 | 10 | 0.1 MD, 0.1 SW, 0.1 Psy |
Total | - | 1401 | 39.61 FTE |
Note: APN = advanced practice nurse, BC = bereavement coordinator, FTE = full-time equivalent, MD = physician, Psy = psychologist, RN = registered nurse, SW = social worker.
*Only "core staff" are listed. Additional staff (e.g., nurses, personal support workers) provide front-line care when children are admitted to the hospice.
†Hospital-based program started before the hospice; therefore, both dates are included.