Inpatient treatment is a type of treatment in which a patient is provided with 24 hour, monitored care.
Physicians and hospitals follow a specific set of clinical criteria (severity of illness and intensity of service needed to diagnose and treat) that assists in determining whether a patient meets medical necessity for an “inpatient” status in the hospital. Louise Marshall Hospital and Palmerston and District Hospital have 15 inpatient beds at each hospital site.
Louise Marshall Hospital and Palmerston and District Hospital offer three types of patient accommodation including standard ward, semi-private and private. Ward rooms include up to three beds and are offered free of charge to all patients with a valid Ontario Health Card. Private or semi-private rooms can be requested for an additional charge. Either the patient’s insurance plan or the patient is responsible for paying the Preferred Accommodation charge.
Every effort is made to provide you with your written requested accommodation. At times, for infection control requirements or patient volume, we may not be able to accommodate your request.
For more information, please read our Patient and Visitor Guide.
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Accommodations
North Wellington Health Care of Louise Marshall Hospital and Palmerston and District Hospital offer three types of patient accommodation:
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standard ward
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semi-private
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private
Ward rooms include up to three beds and are offered free of charge to all patients with a valid Canadian Health Card.
Private or semi-private rooms can be requested for an additional charge. Either the patient’s insurance plan or the patient is responsible for paying the Preferred Accommodation charge.
Every effort is made to provide you with your written requested accommodation. At times, for infection control requirements or patient volume, we may not be able to accommodate your request.
Palliative Care
Hospice Palliative Care Patient Services
“Healing is about radically coming into the present…healing is about letting go of the past, of the future…healing is about attending to my whole person needs.”
Dr. Balfour Mount, Father of Canadian Hospice Palliative Care
“To Cure sometimes, To relieve often, To comfort always”
Hippocrates
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Hospital Elder Life Program
North Wellington Health Care of Palmerston and District Hospital and Louise Marshall Hospital offer senior patients a Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP).
We recognize that many older adults, while in the hospital, have difficulty with memory, confusion, nutrition and mobility. The Hospital Life Elder Program provides specific interventions to help keep the mind and body active, so cognitive and physical functioning can be maintained.
Services are provided by HELP staff and volunteers. The HELP team includes a Social Worker, Elder Life Clinical Nurse Specialists, Geriatrician and highly trained volunteers.
To participate, patients must be 65 years of age or older with one or more risk factors for functional cognitive decline or delirium.
Risk factors include:
- Decreased mobility or ADL impairment
- Pre-existing cognitive impairment, dementia, history of delirium
- Sensory impairment (vision, hearing)
- Inadequate caloric intake or dehydration
- Sleep deprivation
Patients may not participate in the program if they meet any of the following criteria:
- Medically unstable, unresponsive (coma) or death is imminent
- Severe dementia, psychosis, or behavioural problems unsafe for volunteer interaction
- Discharge firmly anticipated within 48h of admission
- Aphasia, unable to communicate
- Neutropenic precautions
- Airborne precautions (e.g. TB)
- Patient or family refusal for participation
Services
- Geriatric interdisciplinary assessment and interventions coordinated by a Social Worker
- Assistance from specially trained volunteers, overseen by interdisciplinary professionals, who provide the following programs:
Visitor: Orientation, communication and social support
Feeding Assistance: Help and companionship during meals
Therapeutic Activities: Mental stimulation and socialization
Early Mobilization: exercise and help with mobilization
Vision / Hearing: Adaptations and equipment
500 Whites Road
Palmerston, ON
N0G 2P0
