Dr. Peter Centre Day Health
We provide a broad range of clinical services in a safe and comfortable, therapeutic environment:
Nutrient-dense meals served twice daily.
Comprehensive nursing service including health assessments, medication assistance, and consultation for symptom management. Nurses play a key role in helping participants successfully engage in highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) treatment.
Showers, sleep rooms, laundry facilities, computers, telephones and gym.
Counselling services build emotional strength and promote essential psychological well-being and wellness.
Art therapy and music therapy stimulate self-awareness, self-expression, communication, personal development and greater self-care, and enable a wide range of outcomes.
Recreational therapy and complementary therapy facilitate well-being and enhance quality of life.
A social support network of staff, peers and volunteers.
Vision
The Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation will make a global contribution to changing the world of HIV care.
Mission
To provide Comfort Care for people living with HIV.
Values
COMPASSION
We respect the dignity of every person.
COURAGE
We demonstrate commitment to and passion for social purpose.
INCLUSION
We maintain a culture that honours diversity.
INNOVATION
We approach emerging challenges with dynamic, inspired responses.
Vision for the Future
Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) treatment extends lives. It also helps prevent HIV transmission. Reducing the number of new infections saves lives and saves health care dollars.
Everyone infected with HIV deserves access to HAART. Thats where we come in. The Dr. Peter Centre assists individuals to manage medication and the side effects, enabling us to play an important role in both treatment and prevention.
We are ready to:
expand our mission in response to the need for increased capacity and the complexity of HIV care
provide more care to more people at the Dr. Peter Centre
build more Dr. Peter Centres in more communities so people with HIV will have the specialized health care they need closest to where they live
share our innovative model with more provincial, national and international health care providers to help them develop their skills and capacity to provide the same care
bring about larger change in HIV care in communities throughout Canada and around the world.
Services
- Counselling and Support
- Harm Reduction
- HIV Service Organizations
- Sexual Health
- Housing
- Food and Practical Assistance
- Health and Wellness