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Abbotsford Hospital meeting our needs ARH builds community resources A growing, vibrant community requires robust community health-care services and a state-of-the-art health care facility to meet the needs of its residents. Fraser Health, through the Abbotsford Regional Hospital (ARH) and Cancer Centre and Abbotsford community health services, serves 150,000 Abbotsford residents and 330,000 people from surrounding communities. Abbotsford residents are generally healthy people. In a survey conducted by Fraser Health, almost half of local citizens surveyed view their general health as excellent or very good and more than 60 per cent feel their mental health is good or very good. However, when these healthy people get sick, Fraser Health wants to ensure that the hospital and beds within it are available to them. People want to remain at home in their
communities surrounded by their friends and family as long as possible. That’s why Fraser Health is investing and building better community health resources, including home health, residential care, mental health and substance use services. By building community health resources, Fraser Health can help support seniors to stay active and healthy in the community. In Abbotsford, Fraser Health is partnering with family doctors and community organizations to provide care to patients through a team-based approach. What this means is that a team made up of nurses, therapists, a social worker, a pharmacist, a dementia clinician and others share the care for a senior and work together so that the senior doesn’t need to access different health workers who may
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We and support support We help help people who are dying and individuals and and families familes who individuals who are are grieving grieving the the loss loss of of a loved one. Holmberg House, Abbotsford’s first adult hospice residence for people 19 years and older is open and welcoming. We offer palliative care to help you heal and strengthen as you face a terminal illness or the death of a loved one. We also provide complimentary grief therapies (one-to-one or in groups) for adults, teens, and children who have experienced the loss of a loved one.
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