Totem Lodge – Sechelt Hospital

Facility	Totem Lodge - Sechelt Hospital	Service Type	Long-Term Care
Health authority	Vancouver Coastal Health	Regulation/Legislation	Hospital Act
Street address	5544 Sunshine Coast Highway	Accreditation status	Accredited
City/postal code	Sechelt/V0N3A0	Accreditation expiry date	not available
Phone number	(604) 885-8602	Contact for complaints	Resident Care Coordinator / Manager
Operator (Type)	Vancouver Coastal Health (Health Authority)	Phone number of complaint contact	(604) 885-8602
Opened	1988	Personal spending account	No
Councils	Resident Council, Family Council	Visitor parking (cost)	Yes (no fee)
Meetings held	Regular Schedule	Co-located with an assisted living residence	No
Wait Time	From 2 to 590 days, with an average of 148 days
Current language(s) spoken by staff	French, Tagalog
Indigenous Territory	shíshálh Nation

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

Resident Fees for Personal Services
Cable monthly service included	No	Other extra fees	Personal Care fee for personal items
Telephone monthly service included	Yes
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	3
Publicly funded beds (short and long-term)	49	Double Occupancy	3
Total beds	49	Other Occupancy	10

Source: 1. Ministry of Health; 2. Facility

Contracted Services
Professional nursing services	Partially	Housekeeping services	No
Non-regulated services (care aides)	Partially	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	3.42
Nursing care hours (hours per resident per day)	2.93	2.99
Registered Nurse (hours per resident per day)	0.32	0.36
Licensed Practical Nurse (hours per resident per day)	0.47	0.48
Care Aide (hours per resident per day)	2.14	2.14
Allied health hours (hours per resident per day)	0.43	0.43
Food costs per resident per day (actual cost)	$8.66	$10.02
Facility per diem rate	n/a	n/a
Monthly client rate for publicly funded bed (single)	From $1,237 to $3,576 with an average of $2,010	From $1,338 to $3,847 with an average of $2,120

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

Licensing, 2022/23
Complaints
Number of licensing complaints	1	Number of substantiated licensing complaints	1

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	0	0.0	0.8	Missing or wandering person	0	0.0	0.7
Fall with injury/adverse event	0	0.0	8.6	Other injury	0	0.0	1.9
Food or other poisoning	0	0.0	0.1	Aggressive behaviour	0	0.0	3.7
Unexpected Illness	0	0.0	21.0	Attempted suicide	0	0.0	0.1
Expected death	0	0.0	25.5	Other - clinical	0	0.0	0.8
Unexpected death	0	0.0	0.7	Other - service delivery	0	0.0	0.7

Inspections
Risk Rating	Medium	Risk Score	15
Number of Inspections	4	Number of licensing infractions found	5

Licensing Infractions
Licensing	0	Nutrition & food services	0
Physical facility, equipment & furnishings	0	Medication	0
Staffing	2	Program	0
Policies & procedures	1	Records & reporting	1
Care & supervision	1	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	82	83
Percent female	58.9%	63.3%
Percent 85 years or older	39.5%	52.8%
Percent younger than 65 years	3.2%	5.6%
Average length of stay (days)	413	817
Percent of residents diagnosed with depression	20.9%	22.9%
Percent of residents dependent in activities of daily living	57.4%	32.4%
Percent of residents in a wheelchair	41.7%	53.3%
Percent of residents with dementia (mild to severe)	59.1%	62.9%
Percent of residents with severe cognitive impairment (includes severe dementia)	37.4%	27.5%
Percent of residents with physically abusive behaviour	9.6%	8.4%
Average index of social engagement	1.9	2.7
Percent of residents with low social engagement	61.7%	48.0%
Case mix index	0.61	0.58

Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information

Care Services & Quality Indicators (2022/23)	Facility	B.C.
Percent of residents receiving physical therapy	3.5%	11.1%
Percent of residents receiving recreation therapy	7.8%	30.3%
Percent of residents receiving occupational therapy	0.0%	5.5%
Percent of residents receiving depression medication	49.6%	51.3%
Percent of residents taking antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis of psychosis	37.8%	27.9%
Percent of residents taking antipsychotic drugs with or without a diagnosis of psychosis	45.1%	34.9%
Percent of residents taking nine or more medications	44.3%	44.6%
Percent of residents with daily physical restraints	6.6%	6.0%
Percent of residents with falls in the last 30 days	11.0%	12.8%
Percent of residents with a worsened pressure ulcer	1.9%	2.2%
Percent of residents with four or more emergency room visits	0.0%	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	95.9%	87.5%
Percent of health care workers vaccinated for influenza	30.4%	39.1%
Percent of residents vaccinated for COVID-19	88.0%	84.0%

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

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