Swedish Assisted Living Residence – Seniors Advocate

Residence	Swedish Assisted Living Residence	Service Type	Assisted Living
Health authority	Fraser Health	Regulation/Legislation	Community Care & Assisted Living Act
Street address	7230 Halifax Street	Accreditation status	Not accredited
City/postal code	Burnaby	Accreditation expiry date	Not available
Phone number	(604) 420-1241 Ext: 101	Contact for complaints	Accountant
Operator (Type)	Swedish Canadian Rest Home Association (Not For Profit)	Phone number of complaint contact	(604) 420-4414
Opened	1970	Personal spending account	No
Councils	Resident council only	Visitor parking (cost)	Yes (no fee)
Meetings held	As needed	Average Wait Time	From 25 to 261 days, with an average of 120 days
Current language(s) spoken by staff	English, Filipino, Hindi, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Ukranian
Indigenous Territory	Coast Salish peoples

Source: Residence

Resident Fees for Personal Services
Cable monthly service included	Yes	Other extra fees	companionship, foot care, hair services
Telephone monthly service included	Yes
Internet monthly service included	Yes

Source: Residence

Units (March 31, 2022)
Private units (not publicly funded)		10
Publicly funded units (short and long-term)		46
Total units		56

Source: 1. Ministry of Health; 2. Residence

Contracted Services
Professional nursing services	Yes	Housekeeping services	No
Non-regulated services (care aides)	Yes	Plant/building maintenance	No
Food services provided by	Outside contractor	Food prepared and cooked on site	Yes

Source: Residence

Services Provided
Support with activities of daily living	Yes	Assistance with managing medication	Yes
Therapeutic diet support	No	Safekeeping of money/personal property	Yes
Behaviour management support	Yes	Psychosocial (programming) support	No

Source: Residence

Funding	2020/21	2021/22
Food costs per resident per day (actual cost)	$8.63	$9.78

Source: Health Authority

Licensing (2021/22)
Complaints, 2021/22
Number of complaints	0	Number substantiated complaints	0

Incidents, 2021/22	Total Number	Per 100 units			Total Number	Per 100 units
Incidents, 2021/22	Total Number	Residence	B.C.		Total Number	Residence	B.C.
Disease outbreak or occurrence	2	3.6	1.0	Medication error with adverse event	0	0.0	0.5
Abuse / neglect	0	0.0	0.1	Missing or wandering person	0	0.0	0.8
Fall with injury / Adverse event	4	7.1	24.4	Other injury	1	1.8	1.3
Food or other poisoning	0	0.0	0.0	Aggressive behaviour	0	0.0	1.3
Unexpected illness	31	55.4	31.2	Attempted suicide	0	0.0	0.2
Overdose	0	0	0.1	Other - clinical	0	0.0	0.4
Unexpected death	1	1.8	1.3	Other - service delivery	0	0.0	0.5
Fire/Flood/Gas Leak	0	0	0.1	Police Call	0	0	0.4

Inspections
Registration	0	Registration follow-up	0
Complaint	0	Complaint follow-Up	0
Education	0	Health and safety issue	0
Site inspection	0	Site visit	0
Possible unregistered	0	Total number of inspections	0

Source: Ministry of Health

Resident Profile (2021/22)	Residence	Health Authority
Average age of population	88	83
Percent female	78.0%	70.3%
Percent 85 years or older	72.9%	56.8%
Percent younger than 65 years	0.0%	6.8%
Average length of stay (days)	1,549	1208

Source: Health Authority

Vaccination Coverage (2021/22)	Facility	B.C.
Percent of residents vaccinated for influenza	87.0%	83.3
Percent of health care workers vaccinated for influenza	n/a	n/a
Percent of residents vaccinated for COVID-19	97.2%	92.7

Source: 1. Ministry of Health; 2. Health Authority; 3. Residence

Link to web page
Go to Swedish Assisted Living Residence website