Providence Care Redevelopment

four sisters of Providence from Montreal came here they took risks with their young lives they didn't have a whole lot of education they had willing hands and loving hearts the sisters motto is a heart consecrated to charity how beautiful that somehow we've taken that and that is a symbol to represent our ministry there's so much back and forth within the clients that I enjoy while I work but it also gives me perspective when I leave every day and it makes me a better I think husband, better father to have these rich encounters that I really don't take for granted having access to fresh air and green space, I think that's a human thing that we all need and especially some of the clients that I work with having a safe and suitable environment with staff that care will really lend well to getting our individual's better and reaching their maximum potential or whatever they're quality of life would be my name is Reginald Barker I'm a patient on the Forensics services when I first came her in nineteen ninety i was sick i was sick and I was dangerous i work with a a doctor who's not here now to uh help make me feel a whole lot better about myself and about other people right now we don't really have any privacy we live in a dorm with people that I know but there's still people in there I don't know the sisters original mission was to um reach into the community and support people who were marginalized in the community and just just recognize the human condition I guess is the best way to say it and support and love and show compassion, preserve the dignity of those people the care that I received at Providence Care was fantastic they're all there for you they're there for the patients and they worked together as a team i think when you're in recovery or rehabilitation you need sort of a nice environment that's fresh and modern and that is more conducive to healing and recovery. It can open a whole world of difference for someone who's living there in terms of independence and that independence can also lead to self-confidence and that's important for anyone and everyone i think it's going to be a real opportunity to make this a special place for patients for our clients that call this home so i think we have a real opportunity here to make it a really nice living space um to really enhance just all of the programs, all of our therapeutic programs and enhance the living for our complex care patients the hospital presently is very institutionalized there's no autonomy, there's no um quiet space for the clients to go that they can call their own anyone of us could be stricken with an illness at any point and realize that we need to treat the person as a person and not treat them just because they have an illness now that we've heard that you know we we have the possible of moving in to a new place uh...that can't happen soon enough just to um have a little privacy in health care in canada i think to be able to hold up that we care for the whole person not just to their body but the whole person of who they are is so important in our society being able to have hope for a future and having somebody to nurture that within you actually has physiological changes within a person we want this to be a place where the community feels this is their hospital we say we serve with compassion trust in providence And walk in hope in all the sort of tumultuous times and the chaotic um um experiences happening in health care i'm just so excited that providence stayed true to the mission vision and values and it really is what makes a difference i really do believe it is the foundation that keeps us who we are and keeps us serving the people the way that we do