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Nursing Support Services

Assisting parents and caregivers to help those with special needs

Nursing Support Services (NSS) assists parents and caregivers to help children with special healthcare needs lead active, healthy lives in their communities. NSS Coordinators facilitate safe, consistent care and appropriate health support in a variety of locations including homes, schools and childcare settings.

Services include, but aren’t limited to

providing information and consultation about health issues relating to the special need
planning of community care
training of alternate caregivers
At Home Program assessment which provides medical and respite benefits to those families who qualify

This program is available to children and youth (birth to 19 years) living in BC who require specialized nursing services. Anyone can make a referral to NSS. Contact the Nursing Support Services Coordinator through your local health centre.

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We recognize and acknowledge that we are collectively gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the seven Interior Region First Nations, where we live, learn, collaborate and work together. This region is also home to 15 Chartered Métis Communities. It is with humility that we continue to strengthen our relationships with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit peoples across the Interior.

Interior Health is committed to the elimination of racism and to Cultural Safety and Humility in our facilities and the communities we serve. Read the Statement on Racism, from the Interior Health Board of Directors.