Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation
What is Yee Hong?
The Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care is a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering high quality and culturally appropriate services to seniors in the Greater Toronto Area. Our mission is to enable seniors to live life to the fullest — in the healthiest, most independent and dignified ways.
In December 2009, all four Yee Hong Centres received full accreditation from Accreditation Canada. This is the 5th consecutive time that Yee Hong has received accreditation since it began operation in 1994. The accreditation recognizes that Yee Hong meets national standards of excellence in quality care and service, cares about client safety and continues to strive for high quality health care.
Compliments from the surveyors included:
- strong leadership at all levels
- strong sense of commitment to the organization's values.
- Clear organization commitment to quality and safety across all levels
- Very high staff morale and a trusting relationship between frontline and management
- Very effective communication strategies for staff, residents, families, volunteers, community partners and the general public
- Smart utilization of technology
Yee Hong Facts:
- Four Yee Hong Centres in Scarborough, Markham and Mississauga, serving 15,000 seniors and their families each year.
- 805 long-term care beds
- Offers culturally appropriate long-term care services to seniors of different backgrounds, including Chinese, South Asian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Italian, Filipino and Portuguese
- Over 2,200 people on waiting list
- 150 social housing units
- 308 life lease units
For more information, please contact:
Fiona Wu
416.321.0777 ext 1842
fiona.wu@yeehong.com
www.yeehong.com