For the past six weeks, respite services were paused at the Rotary Flames House, a pediatric hospice in Calgary, affecting about five to seven families per week. Service is set to resume next week.
A surge in patients at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary has prompted the province’s health delivery agency to redeploy staff from a facility that helps dying children so they can offer extra support to the overburdened hospital.
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The Rotary Flames House, a pediatric hospice in Calgary, is temporarily pausing its services and discharging all respite patients to redeploy staff to Alberta Children’s Hospital, CBC News has learned.