Louis Brier Home and Hospital

Facility	Louis Brier Home and Hospital	Service Type	Long-Term Care
Health authority	Vancouver Coastal Health	Regulation/Legislation	Hospital Act & Community Care & Assisted Living Act
Street address	1055 West 41st Ave	Accreditation status	Accredited
City/postal code	Vancouver/V6M1W9	Accreditation expiry date	not available
Phone number	(604) 261-9376	Contact for complaints	Quality and Risk Manager
Operator (Type)	Jewish Home for the Aged of BC (Not For Profit)	Phone number of complaint contact	(604) 267-4698
Opened	1979	Personal spending account	Yes
Councils	Resident Council, Family Council	Visitor parking (cost)	No
Meetings held	Regular Schedule	Co-located with an assisted living residence	No
Wait Time	From 4 to 448 days, with an average of 61 days
Current language(s) spoken by staff	English, Hebrew, Tagalog, Mandarin, Hungarian, Russian, French, Romanian
Indigenous Territory	Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish peoples

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

Resident Fees for Personal Services
Cable monthly service included	No	Other extra fees	n/a
Telephone monthly service included	No
Internet monthly service included	Yes

Source: Facility

Beds (as of March 31, 2023)		Room Configuration (excluding short-stay beds) (as of March 31, 2023)
Private beds (not publicly funded)	0	Single Occupancy	149
Publicly funded beds (short and long-term)	215	Double Occupancy	33
Total beds	215	Other Occupancy	0

Source: 1. Ministry of Health; 2. Facility

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

Source: Facility

Funding	2021/22	2022/23
Total direct care hours (hours per resident per day)	3.36	3.36
Nursing care hours (hours per resident per day)	3.00	3.00
Registered Nurse (hours per resident per day)	0.35	0.35
Licensed Practical Nurse (hours per resident per day)	0.58	0.58
Care Aide (hours per resident per day)	2.08	2.07
Allied health hours (hours per resident per day)	0.36	0.36
Food costs per resident per day (actual cost)	$12.59	$15.21
Facility per diem rate	$266.17	$266.17
Monthly client rate for publicly funded bed (single)	From $1,237 to $3,576 with an average of $2,237	From $1,338 to $3,847 with an average of $2,439

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

Licensing, 2022/23
Complaints
Number of licensing complaints	3	Number of substantiated licensing complaints	2

Incidents	Total Number	Per 100 beds			Total Number	Per 100 beds
Incidents	Total Number	Facility	B.C.		Total Number	Facility	B.C.
Disease outbreak or occurrence	0	0.0	0.9	Medication error with adverse event	0	0.0	0.3
Abuse / neglect	2	0.9	0.8	Missing or wandering person	2	0.9	0.7
Fall with injury/adverse event	16	7.4	8.6	Other injury	0	0.0	1.9
Food or other poisoning	0	0.0	0.1	Aggressive behaviour	9	4.2	3.7
Unexpected Illness	41	19.1	21.0	Attempted suicide	1	0.5	0.1
Expected death	43	20.0	25.5	Other - clinical	11	5.1	0.8
Unexpected death	0	0.0	0.7	Other - service delivery	0	0.0	0.7

Inspections
Risk Rating	Low	Risk Score	4
Number of Inspections	23	Number of licensing infractions found	11

Licensing Infractions
Licensing	0	Nutrition & food services	1
Physical facility, equipment & furnishings	1	Medication	0
Staffing	1	Program	0
Policies & procedures	1	Records & reporting	1
Care & supervision	6	Resident Bill of Rights	0
Hygiene & communicable disease control	0	Other	0

Source: Health Authority

Resident Profile (2022/23)	Facility	B.C.
Average age of population	84	83
Percent female	61.8%	63.3%
Percent 85 years or older	50.8%	52.8%
Percent younger than 65 years	3.5%	5.6%
Average length of stay (days)	1,070	817
Percent of residents diagnosed with depression	21.3%	22.9%
Percent of residents dependent in activities of daily living	34.5%	32.4%
Percent of residents in a wheelchair	57.1%	53.3%
Percent of residents with dementia (mild to severe)	64.6%	62.9%
Percent of residents with severe cognitive impairment (includes severe dementia)	31.8%	27.5%
Percent of residents with physically abusive behaviour	13.1%	8.4%
Average index of social engagement	3.8	2.7
Percent of residents with low social engagement	23.5%	48.0%
Case mix index	0.63	0.58

Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information

Care Services & Quality Indicators (2022/23)	Facility	B.C.
Percent of residents receiving physical therapy	18.5%	11.1%
Percent of residents receiving recreation therapy	71.2%	30.3%
Percent of residents receiving occupational therapy	4.9%	5.5%
Percent of residents receiving depression medication	56.4%	51.3%
Percent of residents taking antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis of psychosis	31.3%	27.9%
Percent of residents taking antipsychotic drugs with or without a diagnosis of psychosis	39.5%	34.9%
Percent of residents taking nine or more medications	48.2%	44.6%
Percent of residents with daily physical restraints	7.5%	6.0%
Percent of residents with falls in the last 30 days	13.6%	12.8%
Percent of residents with a worsened pressure ulcer	3.1%	2.2%
Percent of residents with four or more emergency room visits	1.4%	1.4%

Source: 1. Canadian Institute for Health Information; 2. Health Authority

Vaccination Coverage (2022/23)	Facility	B.C.
Percent of residents vaccinated for influenza	96.7%	87.5%
Percent of health care workers vaccinated for influenza	44.8%	39.1%
Percent of residents vaccinated for COVID-19	87.0%	84.0%

Source: 1. BC Centre for Disease Control; 2. Ministry of Health; 3. Facility

Link to web page
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