Helping you breathe
Choosing to work with Windsor Regional ProResp provides you with the comfort of knowing that when you leave the hospital, you can bring the highest quality care home with you.
Integrated care, from hospital to home
The Windsor Regional ProResp partnership is a joint venture between Windsor Regional Hospital and ProResp, Ontario’s largest community respiratory therapy provider.
This partnership ensures that before you leave the hospital your home care respiratory therapists are in collaboration with your hospital’s team to get you home and help keep you there.
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Pam was a ProResp client of over ten years who didn’t let her need for supplemental oxygen stop her from adventuring around the world. When we caught up with Pam, she told us that when she received her initial diagnosis in hospital, it was hard to take. “At first, I was really upset that I was being put on oxygen permanently,” Pam told us. “To me, that was a sign that my situation was really bad and that the things I love to do in life would now be out of reach.” But thanks to a joint venture between ProResp and Windsor Regional Hospital, Pam received seamless and integrated care from hospital to home.
Pam went in with an open mind and it didn’t take long for the team at ProResp to show her that oxygen therapy doesn’t need to be a sentence of house arrest.
“I have a good quality of life – ten years after my diagnosis. That is what the oxygen has given me,” said Pam. “When I am on oxygen I can do so much more.”
With the support of the ProResp team, Pam makes an annual trip to Mexico and has also travelled to Alaska, Panama and Costa Rica, where she achieved a lifelong dream of ziplining. And at home in southwestern Ontario, Pam and her friends do aqua aerobics in her backyard pool, supported by a fifty foot hose that carries the oxygen from her concentrator all the way to the shallow end!
“Being active and thinking positively makes a difference,” Pam enthused. “A lot of people, they get put on the oxygen and they just kind of give up. Maybe they are embarrassed to be out with a hose and a tank. But with ProResp, they make it possible for you to live the life you were living before. If you have a dream, they help make it happen. Wherever I go, ProResp makes sure there is oxygen and support there waiting for me.”
Pam’s advice to others in her situation: “Don’t decide right away you can’t do something. Instead, ask yourself how can I make this happen?”
Why a partnership?
The support you get at home is as important as the care you receive in your community hospital. That is why the Windsor Regional ProResp partnership constantly measures the care we deliver and reports patient satisfaction to Windsor Regional Hospital leadership and ProResp. With the joint oversight of Windsor Regional Hospital and ProResp, you can be confident you are getting the best care, getting you back to doing what you love.
What are the benefits?
Patients who choose Windsor Regional ProResp tend to spend less time in hospital, because their care team can be confident they will get the support they need at home. Research shows those with COPD are less likely to be readmitted to hospital within 30 days, because their needs are being met at home by a team that works closely with your community hospital. Windsor Regional ProResp is an innovative service provider that gives patients access to all current technology and equipment in delivering respiratory therapy.
How does it work?
Windsor Regional ProResp is a partnership between Windsor Regional Hospital and ProResp, an Ontario-owned provider of community respiratory therapy.
The partnership strengthens health care in your community using a patient-first approach.
This integrated care model allows Windsor Regional’s frontline caregivers and management to work directly with ProResp’s frontline caregivers and management to ensure you get the best care possible.
Our teams regularly measure patient satisfaction and performance and report this information back to senior management of the hospital and ProResp.
Patient and family choice is paramount in selecting the community respiratory therapy provider you want to be served by. Patient surveys and feedback consistently show those who choose the Windsor Regional ProResp partnership are glad they did.
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