VHA Home HealthCare

VHA Home HealthCare We're a not-for-profit charitable organization that offers 24/7 health care and support services.

VHA is proud to be a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) through the Registered Nurse Association of Ontario (RN...
11/20/2025

VHA is proud to be a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) through the Registered Nurse Association of Ontario (RNAO). Through the embracing of Best Practice Guidelines, homecare specialists like Ethelyn are making the care we deliver to our clients even better.

As a Professional Practice Leader, Ethelyn is guiding our care providers through adopting guidelines like Person- and Family-Centred Care.

"For me, Person- and Family-Centered Care is about recognizing that care is most effective when we listen to what matters most to the person and their loved ones, and when we make space for their voices in planning and decision-making” explains Ethelyn. “Personally, I think of my own family’s experiences in the health system, and I know how powerful it is when providers truly listen and include us. That’s the kind of culture I want to help strengthen here."

Learn more about how VHA is embracing Best Practice Guidelines and the impact it has on our clients here: https://www.vha.ca/for-clients/commitment-to-quality/bpso/

Another respiratory illness season is upon us. Keeping healthy is the best way for us to protect loved ones, friends and...
11/19/2025

Another respiratory illness season is upon us. Keeping healthy is the best way for us to protect loved ones, friends and clients. Thankfully, there are several very easy boxes we can check to reduce our chances of catching and spreading a respiratory illness.

✅ Stay up-to-date on vaccines
✅ Consider masking and avoiding crowds
✅ Stock up on essentials
✅ Practice good hand hygiene
✅ Disinfect surfaces
✅ Support your immune system
✅ Improve your indoor air quality

Just a few precautions can make a real difference in keeping ourselves and others healthy. To read the full article on staying healthy during respiratory illness season, click here:
https://www.vha.ca/blog/preparing-for-influenza-and-respiratory-virus-season/

Each year, VHA’s Leadership Awards celebrate team members who demonstrate exceptional leadership and inspire others acro...
11/18/2025

Each year, VHA’s Leadership Awards celebrate team members who demonstrate exceptional leadership and inspire others across the organization.

This year, Hana Asfaw, Personal Support Worker and team preceptor, is recognized as the Leading the Future of Health & Independence at Home award winner. Hana leads by example, mentoring new PSWs, sharing her passion for care, and inspiring others to bring their best to every client interaction.

Read how Hana’s dedication, positivity and mentorship are helping shape the future of care at home: https://www.vha.ca/news/leading-the-future-of-health-independence-at-home-spotlight-on-hana-asfaw/

For Estrella, a nurse here at VHA, the best part of the job is receiving thank you messages from clients she’s helped on...
11/17/2025

For Estrella, a nurse here at VHA, the best part of the job is receiving thank you messages from clients she’s helped on their healing journey. Hearing words like “you’re a godsend” reminds her that she’s making a real difference through the care she provides.

For the past six years, Estrella’s been part of VHA’s nursing team, providing wound and ostomy care to clients. She’s dedicated to ensuring clients receive excellent care in the comfort of their own homes. Estrella also plays an active role in mentoring other nurses and takes pride in seeing them grow more independent as she shares her experience and knowledge.

Her dedication and commitment certainly haven’t gone unnoticed, either! Because of her incredible work, she’s been the recipient of multiple awards like: Outstanding Filipinos Abroad, a Sillimanian Award as an aulmni of her university, and two consecutive Ontario Community Care Access Centre awards for Systems Partnership!

VHA nurses like Estrella make a difference every day in the care clients receive for a wide range of health needs. Learn more about nursing care at VHA:

https://www.vha.ca/services/nursing-care/

Ensuring our clients receive the best possible care is a never-ending commitment. One of the many ways our nursing staff...
11/14/2025

Ensuring our clients receive the best possible care is a never-ending commitment. One of the many ways our nursing staff is continuing the rise to the challenge of meeting our clients’ needs is through ongoing upgrading and training.

With this in mind, our Professional Practice Team launched VHA’s inaugural Nursing Clinical Excellence Workshop series focused on hands-on learning experiences designed to build confidence and strengthen clinical skills.

To meet the needs of our dispersed workforce these workshops are designed for delivery at various locations and on different dates making it as easy as possible for our staff to attend.

This year’s sessions focused on the Child and Nursing Team, the Kew Beach Unit Team, and our Care Team Supervisors and Clinical Leads, each playing a vital role in the success of this initiative.

As the end to our first round of training approaches, we’re so proud of the achievements of our nurses and we’re already excited to expand this initiative to more nursing teams next year.

Healthy eating has become increasingly difficult with rising food prices over the past few years. We asked Ekta, one of ...
11/13/2025

Healthy eating has become increasingly difficult with rising food prices over the past few years. We asked Ekta, one of VHA’s Registered Dietitians for her recommendations on how to eat healthy on a budget.

“I recommend purchasing canned or frozen goods over fresh,” says Ekta. “Canned and frozen foods often get a bad reputation, but the reality is, beyond having a longer shelf life and being more affordable, canned and frozen foods often contain more vitamins than their fresh counterparts due to being picked at peak ripeness.”

Canned beans and legumes can also be a more nutritious and affordable option than animal-based proteins and can be a great choice when shopping on a budget.

If you, or anyone you know, is struggling to afford food, you can check out this interactive map Ekta created to help locate no/low cost foods in your neighbourhood:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=43.741120372534986%2C-79.38920560000001&z=10&mid=1MpTS0uhS8WNsUGAm0S8rce122crYP0lS

Workplace violence and harassment (WHV) are common and often underreported across the health care sector. The privacy of...
11/13/2025

Workplace violence and harassment (WHV) are common and often underreported across the health care sector. The privacy of a home care setting can amplify this challenge.

VHA’s Emily King and Sonia Nizzer shared a poster presentation at the Canadian Association on Gerontology’s 2025 conference about how VHA has developed a comprehensive, trauma-informed and needs-focused WVH response framework which incorporates a structured ‘restorative pathway’ for providing supports to preserve and strengthen client-provider relationships where appropriate.

Their pathway is designed to encourage reporting of all WHV experiences by addressing common reasons for non-reporting and ensuring that support aligns with reporters’ priorities. Through a focus on identifying and addressing unmet needs, including those of clients or families with responsive behaviours, it provides an opportunity to improve both care quality and workplace safety.

Data driven solutions such as this, developed through a collaboration between our Research, Human Resources and Client Services teams, help ensure that VHA continues to deliver the best possible care to our clients in the safest possible setting.

Learn more about research and innovation at VHA here:
https://www.vha.ca/research-and-innovation/

Credit to co-authors: Adam Benn, Sandra McKay, Viktoriya Milikhina

Today we take a moment to recognize and remember the sacrifices made by veterans throughout Canadian history.Let’s all t...
11/11/2025

Today we take a moment to recognize and remember the sacrifices made by veterans throughout Canadian history.

Let’s all take time today to reflect and show our gratitude while sharing our hope for a future filled with peace.

Rehabilitation care for VHA clients can take on many forms. For Reema, one of our dedicated Speech Language Pathologists...
11/10/2025

Rehabilitation care for VHA clients can take on many forms. For Reema, one of our dedicated Speech Language Pathologists, providing care means working closely with older adults to assess and treat communication and swallowing challenges. The support she provides helps her clients feel safer, more confident and more connected in their daily lives.

“I see the difference when clients are able to communicate more effectively or eat safely again. It’s about restoring not just skills but also dignity, confidence and quality of life,” explains Reema.

For her, VHA is a place where support and independence go hand in hand. She’s a part of an extensive and integrated team ensuring clients get personally tailored care, delivered with heart. We’re proud to have Reema on our team, helping clients build stronger connections every day.

Learn more about Speech Language Pathology at VHA here:
https://www.vha.ca/services/speech-language/

We all know how expensive college and university can be. The Head Start Scholarship program was created to support VHA f...
11/07/2025

We all know how expensive college and university can be. The Head Start Scholarship program was created to support VHA family members in shouldering the burden of education costs.

This year, VHA was proud to award Head Start Scholarships to 30 applicants. Recipients were chosen by our selection committee not only for their commitment to academic excellence but also for their community involvement.

Three of our recipients, Lucas, Nandni and Lawrencia, shared with us what it means to them to receive one of these prestigious scholarships. Read what they had to say here:

https://www.vha.ca/news/helping-students-achieve-academic-success-through-vhas-head-start-scholarship-program/

11/06/2025

Meet Anupa! One of VHA Home HealthCare’s talented physiotherapists. Anupa is also one of this year’s Client Choice Award winners.

Her dedication shines through when providing care to clients like Cathy, and it shows! Watch Anupa’s Client Choice Award video to see what sets homecare specialists like Anupa apart and how they’re making an incredible difference in the lives of their clients every day.

Find the full list of this year’s Client Choice Award winners and their videos here: https://www.vha.ca/for-clients/client-centred/

For Zaid, Digital Training Analyst, “Digital Health Environments are about empowering and healing people through the use...
11/05/2025

For Zaid, Digital Training Analyst, “Digital Health Environments are about empowering and healing people through the use of technology.”

As a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), VHA embraces Best Practice Guidelines, such as Clinical Practice in a Digital Health Environment.

We rely on the knowledge and skills of experts, like Majoo, to trial new technologies and then gather feedback from clinicians, clients and family members to develop guides and resources to patients so they can continue to use technologies with minimal assistance.

The same philosophy also applies to improving our medical records and optimizing clinician workflows. “VHA recognizes that when our homecare specialists spend less time documenting, they spend more time with their clients,” explains Majoo.

By embracing Best Practice Guidelines, VHA helps ensure our clients get the best possible care, delivered with heart and led by science. Learn more here:
https://www.vha.ca/for-clients/commitment-to-quality/bpso/

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